Re: [gentoo-embedded] baselayout-lite emerge failure

[Ned Ludd]

baselayout-lite will probably be obsoleted very soon in favor of
baselayout-2 (aka openrc). A project developed with busybox,mdev etc in
mind. I highly suggest you explore that route vs -lite.



On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:02 -0800, Phani Babu Giddi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to emerge baselayout-lite using the following command
>
> ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge embedded_rootfs
> baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1.ebuild
>
> It fails with the following message.
>
>
> *** emerging by path is broken and may not always work!!!
> Calculating dependencies -
> *** You are emerging a masked package. It is MUCH better to use
> *** /etc/portage/package.* to accomplish this. See portage(5) man
> *** page for details.
> >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting...
> >>> (Control-C to abort)...
> Continuing... in: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
> |
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy " baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1.ebuild"
> have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - sys-apps/baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1 (masked by: missing keyword)
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> page or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
>
> Now based on the mailing list and man pages I try to fix it but
> nothing seem to work.
>
> 1. I checked that the package is not masked
> in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
> 2. /etc/portage/package.keywords/ is a directory and not a file like
> everybody else is seeing.
> 3. The KEYWORDS
> in /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout-lite/baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1.ebuild is ""
>
> Please help me with this.
>
> Regards,
> Phani

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