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From: Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>
To: Christian Aust <christian@wilde-welt.de>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing feature for
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:08:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE50546.9060201@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055192186.14316.10.camel@localhost>


Well, you can enable ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf and set it to 
~arch, where "arch" is your architecture (i.e. ~x86).  This opens up a 
number of interesting packages.  Then there is 
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask.  Any item in this file is literally 
banned from being installed, usually as a safety precaution.  gcc-3.3 is 
a fairly new compiler release, and I believe some fo the AMD Hammer 
patches are still reported to break things, so it's masked in 
package.mask to protect even the people running ~arch.  I currently use 
gcc-3.3 and glibc-2.3.2-r2 + nptl, and so far haven't had any issues. 
When these packages will be removed from package.mask is anyone's guess, 
but for now, every `emerge rsync', you'll have to manually edit that 
file.  It's what I have to do.

--Kumba


Christian Aust wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not sure if gentoo actually lacks this feature, but how can I
> permanently accept ebuilds that are marked unstable, _without_ messing
> with the original ebuild file and loosing my changes during the next
> portage update?
> 
> Ie, I've emerged gcc-3.3 and like to give it a try on my Intel P4. But
> "emerge -ep system" would downgrade it to 3.2.x first, instead of
> leaving it alone. Also, I wouldn't like to accept all unstable packages
> in make.conf; I figure it would be more difficult to tell what went
> wrong wrong in case of an error if you have all unstable packages (and
> not only gcc).
> 
> Your feedback is appreciated. Best regards,
> 
> -  Christian
> 


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-09 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-09 20:56 [gentoo-dev] Missing feature for Christian Aust
2003-06-09 21:28 ` Daniel Armyr
2003-06-09 21:52   ` Christian Aust
2003-06-09 22:05     ` Marius Mauch
2003-06-09 22:08 ` Kumba [this message]
2003-06-10  8:21 ` [gentoo-dev] not missing feature for package.unmask Stanislav Brabec
2003-06-11  0:02   ` Kurt V. Hindenburg
2003-06-11 13:08     ` Alastair Tse
2003-06-11 14:21       ` Kurt V. Hindenburg

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