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From: Darren Kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:26:16
Message-Id: 200610191123.34363.bulliver@badcomputer.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync? by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Quoth the Bo Ørsted Andresen
2 > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 23:35, Darren Kirby wrote:
3 > > Again, ensure that you have the line:
4 > >
5 > > media-sound/dir2ogg ~x86
6 > >
7 > > in "/etc/portage/package.keywords"
8 > >
9 > > Note that this assumes you are running "x86" ARCH. If you are using a
10 > > different arch then do the same thing but change the arch to what you are
11 > > using: ie: "~sparc", "~ppc", or "~amd64".
12 >
13 > Actually it doesn't assume anything. It simply means that you accept any
14 > package that includes the ~x86 keyword..
15
16 Sheesh. Sorry for the passive tense.
17
18 In what I wrote above: "media-sound/dir2ogg ~x86", as it pertains to the task
19 Max needs to do to get a newer version, I am assuming Max is running an x86
20 ARCH...
21
22 If you really want to be pedantic it doesn't mean "that you accept any package
23 that includes the ~x86 keyword", it means you accept the ~x86 keyworded
24 version of dir2ogg...
25
26 -d
27 --
28 darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
29 "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
30 - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
31
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Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync? Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@××××××××.org>