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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:56:33
Message-Id: 200603251750.02243.bss03@volumehost.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd by JimD
1 On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:37, JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org> wrote
2 about '[gentoo-user] net-misc/rinetd':
3 > When I first installed rinetd, I noticed that amd64 was not in the
4 > KEYWORDS. I added amd64 to the KEYWORDS in the ebuild and it has been
5 > working fine.
6
7 That was your first mistake. /usr/portage is "owned" by PORTAGE. A --sync
8 will destroy any local changes in there (with the exception of a few
9 directories).
10
11 > However everytime I run emerge to update world/system
12 > I get the following warning:
13 >
14 > !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
15 > !!! masked or don't exist:
16 > net-misc/rinetd
17 >
18 > I have net-misc/rinetd ~* in /etc/portage/package.keywords but that
19 > doesn't seem to help.
20
21 2 options:
22 1) Add a /valid/ keyword to your package.keywords like '~x86' or 'x86'.
23 2) Use a portage overlay.
24
25 --
26 "If there's one thing we've established over the years,
27 it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
28 clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
29 -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh

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