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* On 29.10.2005 sean wrote: |
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> What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by: |
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> missing keyword)? |
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The only way I know of is to change the ebuild. But don't do |
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this on the ebuild in your normal portage dir (it will be |
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overridden after the next sync). Copy the ebuild to |
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'${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/category/name/package.ebuild' and do your |
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changes there (in this case |
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'${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/app-office/openoffice/openoffice-2.0.0.ebuild') |
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Now you have to add your architecture into the KEYWORDS variable |
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(here: KEYWORDS="amd64") and it should work. (Perhaps you have to |
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update your portage cache, I don't know). |
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But, as Ciaran said, don't do it with openoffice-2.0.0, because |
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it won't work under amd64. |
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> From what I read it is supposed to be done with the package.keywords |
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> file in /etc/portage. |
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> But I must be doing something wrong with format. |
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I'm not really sure, but you can't unmask packages marked by |
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missing keyword with any of these files in /etc/portage |
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(specially /etc/portage/package.keywords) IIRC. With these files |
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you can unmask packages masked by |
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/usr/portage/profiles/package.unmask (/etc/portage/package.mask) |
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or marked testing in the ebuild (~amd64) if are running a stable |
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gentoo (read: set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" in /etc/make.conf) |
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(/etc/portage/package.keywords) |
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You can do lots more here. Read 'man portage' for details. |
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> Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 system. I |
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> have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me. |
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As mentioned above it won't work. |
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So long, |
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tkr |
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