[gentoo-amd64] media-libs/ploticus missing keyword

[gentoo-amd64] media-libs/ploticus missing keyword

[Daniel Iliev]

Hi, everyone

I'm sending this question here because media-libs/ploticus is not masked
on x86.
The whole story:
Since I need this package I unmasked it several months ago by:
echo media-libs/ploticus >>/etc/portage/package.unmask

Then I emerged it w/o problem and currently I have
media-libs/ploticus-2.32 installed. Yesterday (after a  scheduled daily
sync) portage started to complain like this:
======
emerge -DuN world -pv
!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
media-libs/ploticus
======
emerge -pv media-libs/ploticus
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/ploticus" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
request:
- media-libs/ploticus-2.33 (masked by: missing keyword)
- media-libs/ploticus-2.32 (masked by: missing keyword)
=====


Following "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#keyword" I did:

echo "media-libs/ploticus ~* *" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords


..but the result is the same.


What should I do in order make portage stop complaining?


P.S.

1) I'm fine with the currently installed version of ploticus and I don't
care about the version, since I use the most basic functionality which I
expect is included in all the versions.

2) Catch-22:

According to the x86 handbook "missing keyword" means the package isn't
tested and that's why it is masked. In order to get it unmasked one
should send a request to the testing team or test it for them and report
the results. Well, no one can test the package because he/she can't
install it in the first place because the package is masked.

;-)))

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Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] media-libs/ploticus missing keyword

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Sunday 21 January 2007 03:44, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote 
about '[gentoo-amd64] media-libs/ploticus  missing keyword':
> Yesterday (after a  scheduled daily
> sync) portage started to complain like this:
> ======
> emerge -DuN world -pv
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> media-libs/ploticus
> ======
> emerge -pv media-libs/ploticus
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/ploticus" have been
> masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
> your request:
> - media-libs/ploticus-2.33 (masked by: missing keyword)
> - media-libs/ploticus-2.32 (masked by: missing keyword)
> =====
>
>
> Following "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#keyword" I
> did:
>
> echo "media-libs/ploticus ~* *" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> ..but the result is the same.

Odd, sounds like a bad ebuild (no KEYWORDS var?) or a bugged portage (no 
longer recognizes the special KEYWORDs).

On my system:
$ grep -i keyw /usr/portage/media-libs/ploticus/*.ebuild
/usr/portage/media-libs/ploticus/ploticus-2.32.ebuild:KEYWORDS="ppc x86"
/usr/portage/media-libs/ploticus/ploticus-2.33.ebuild:KEYWORDS="~ppc ~x86"
so, it doesn't *look* like a bad ebuild.

First, check your local ebuilds, and make sure you don't have an 
interfering overlay.  Also, make sure you don't have two (or more) 
media-libs/ploticus lines in your package.keywords.  If that all checks 
out, I suppose it could be a portage bug.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] media-libs/ploticus missing keyword

[Daniel Iliev]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>
> First, check your local ebuilds, and make sure you don't have an 
> interfering overlay.  Also, make sure you don't have two (or more) 
> media-libs/ploticus lines in your package.keywords.  If that all checks 
> out, I suppose it could be a portage bug.
>
>   


Damn! My fault! It appears I've added media-libs/ploticus twice.

grep -rin ploticus /etc
/etc/portage/package.keywords:2:media-libs/ploticus
/etc/portage/package.keywords:35:media-libs/ploticus ~* *
/etc/portage/package.unmask:3:media-libs/ploticus

Removing the first entry fixed the problem - now portage wants to
upgrade the version.

Thank you very much and sorry for the noise.

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Best regards,
Daniel


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