On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:17, Brett wrote: > Greetings, > I have a few Linux programs which I would like to use, but which are not > in portage. I have attempted to make some ebuild scripts (via the ebuild > HOWTO) for these programs, but I can't get them to work. > > The error I receive is: > { > # emerge /usr/local/portage/app-office/bhpos-base/app-office/bhpos-base > Calculating dependencies > emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy > "/usr/local/portage/app-office/bhpos-base/app-office/bhpos-base". > > !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. > > }//end error > > I have tried everything I can think of, including commenting out all the > required dependencies. you're doing it wrong ... the PORTDIR_OVERLAY is just like the official portdir. that said, you should have the ebuild here: /usr/local/portage/app-office/bhpos-base/bhpos-base-1.20.ebuild (note the 1.20 is a version i just made up :P) then you can just do `emerge bhpos-base` -mike