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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: masked package woes
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:41:18
Message-Id: loom.20051125T032913-379@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: masked package woes by Richard Fish
1 Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:
2
3 > > * net-analyzer/jffnms
4 > > Latest version available: 0.8.2
5 > > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
6
7 > net-analyzer/jffnms is not part of the official portage tree, nor is
8 > it in the online package database. So there are only two ways this
9 > ebuild exist:
10
11 > 1. It was previously a part of portage, and has since been removed, in
12 > which case the next emerge --sync will end up removing it from your
13 > portage tree.
14
15 bummer.
16
17 > 2. You installed an ebuild manually in either the portage tree or
18 > portage overlay.
19
20 Nope.
21
22 > Are there any copyright or CVS comments at the top of
23 > /usr/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms/jffnms-0.8.2.ebuild?
24
25 dunno, the dir does not exist, yet an emerge sync
26 shows the package. The system was last sync'd on monday
27 the 21st of Nov.
28
29 How do I retreive the old ebuilds, so I can keep working on the
30 ebuild or use it as a basis to finish the ebuild package for
31 jffnms?
32
33 Bugzilla 92501 was the original request.
34
35 I wonder why it wass abandoned before it was ever finished?
36
37 James
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: masked package woes Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: masked package woes Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>