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From: Joksim <nbv.sa@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:46:10
Message-Id: 43E06619.9060009@lsinter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem by Holly Bostick
1 Holly Bostick wrote:
2 > Joksim schreef:
3 >
4 >>Hello,
5 >>
6 >>I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have
7 >>tried with:
8 >>
9 >>package.keywords and with package.unmask
10 >>
11 >>=app-arch/rpm-4.2.1
12 >>app-arch/rpm ~86
13 >>
14 >>but with no luck. What am I doing wrong.
15 >>
16 >
17 > RPM-4.2.1 is neither package masked nor arch masked for x86. It is
18 > removed from/not available to the x86 tree, as well as several others
19 > (amd64, ppc64, ppc macos).
20 >
21 >
22 > eix rpm
23 >
24 > * app-arch/rpm
25 > Available versions: 4.0.4-r5 4.2 4.2-r1 -4.2.1
26 >
27 > That's what that "-" means before the version number.
28 >
29 > You can still install it though- if you really want; I would strongly
30 > suggest checking the ChangeLog and b.g.o to find out what's going on,
31 > since a package being made unavailable to any part of the Portage tree
32 > indicates serious issues-- by adding the following to
33 > /etc/portage/package.keywords:
34 >
35 > app-arch/rpm -x86 (or -amd64 or -ppc64, or -ppc macos, depending on what
36 > you're using)
37 >
38 > But I wouldn't expect it to compile, or be worth the trouble it's likely
39 > to cause you, all things considered.
40
41 Yes, I'm trying to install rpm on vserver and dev-libs/beecrypt depends
42 on rpm-4.2.1. I have filled a bug:
43
44 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121046
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