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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:07:16
Message-Id: 1245679695.29141.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] package.keywords by James
1 On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:58 +0000, James wrote:
2 > Well, I just tried something that seems to work,
3 > but has me confused or missing the routine reading
4 > of new portage features.....
5 >
6 >
7 > Anyway upon a routine update (using portage 2.2_rc33
8 > and sets for kde4) I got a message:
9 >
10 >
11 > All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-python/sip-4.8.1" have been masked.
12 > One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
13 > - dev-python/sip-4.8.1 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
14 >
15 >
16 > So I just added this line to package.keywords:
17 >
18 > " >=dev-python/sip-4.8.1 "
19 >
20 >
21 >
22 > and it got passed that problem.....
23 >
24 >
25 > 'man portage' does not show the use of the (><=) syntax
26 > as an example for emerge....?
27
28 This is a package atom... which AFAIK has at least been part of portage
29 since I've been using Gentoo (6 years).
30
31 man 5 portage