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From: Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Oracle 10gR2/libaio
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:04:50
Message-Id: 279fbba4050809090165a2a9b1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Oracle 10gR2/libaio by Maik Musall
1 On 8/9/05, Maik Musall <lists@××××××.de> wrote:
2 > Hello Kerin,
3 >
4 > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:59:57PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote:
5 > > > gentoo has currently just 0.3.12 available, and that only when enabling
6 > > > x86 keyword. 0.3.92 is obviously an incomplete ebuild, and I'm also not
7 > > > sure if that would satisfy the symbol LIBAIO_0.4.
8 > >
9 > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "incomplete". It should satisfy
10 >
11 > I meant, the ebuild is there, but is not emergable because it's not even
12 > soft-masked (or I missed something about portage).
13
14 It's keyworded "-*" (which should normally be considered as a distinct
15 warning against using it). Portage needs to assume the use of that
16 keyword for this particular package. For instance:
17
18 # echo "~dev-libs/libaio-0.3.92 -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
19
20 Cheers,
21
22 --Kerin Millar
23
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