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* Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild help
  @ 2003-09-24  2:27 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2003-09-24  2:27 UTC (permalink / raw
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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

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