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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dzen + portage
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:24:03
Message-Id: 200709291811.41707.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dzen + portage by Stratos Psomadakis
1 On Saturday 29 September 2007, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
2 > i run gentoo 2007.0 amd64...
3 ^^^^^
4 There you go, that's your problem. The ebuild is keyworded ~x86, meaning
5 it won't emerge on amd64 without the necessary keyword. There's nothing
6 wrong with this keytword, it simply means that the dev hasn't rated it
7 for use on other arches.
8
9 It's possible that dzen won't build/run on any other arch, but that's
10 unlikely as there's no indication of this in the ebuild. All the emerge
11 output you quote below is normal for this situation.
12
13 Run this and re-emerge and see what happens:
14
15 echo "x11-misc/dzen **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
16
17 If it breaks you get to keep both pieces. Welcome to Gentoo :-)
18
19 alan
20
21
22 > this is the output when i try to emerge dzen:
23 >
24 > "# emerge -av dzen
25 >
26 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
27 >
28 > Calculating dependencies |
29 > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dzen" have been masked.
30 > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
31 > request:
32 > - x11-misc/dzen-0.8.5 (masked by: missing keyword)
33 > - x11-misc/dzen-0.8.0 (masked by: missing keyword)
34 >
35 > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
36 > page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook."
37 >
38 > i suppose it's something wrong with the ~ keywords... :S
39 > so either i have an entry on /etc/portage/package.keywords,or not,i
40 > get the same error...
41 >
42 > O/H Alan McKinnon έγραψε:
43 > > On Saturday 29 September 2007, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
44 > >> i tried to emerge x11-misc/dzen but it was masked...
45 > >> does anybody know why?...and if i can do something... :S
46 > >> thx...
47 > >
48 > > It's not masked, it's keyworded ~86, which is something quite
49 > > different. It was imnported into portage in July so it's probably
50 > > still ~x86 simply because no-one has filed a stabilization bug.
51 > >
52 > > What arch are you running? It won't emerge onto x86_64 for instance
53 > > without a keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords
54 > >
55 > > alan
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63
64 Alan McKinnon
65 alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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