Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

[Darren Kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>]

Quoth the maxim wexler
> > # echo "media-sound/dir2ogg ~x86" >>
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >
> > and that will install dir2ogg-0.9.1.
>
> Not yet. There's gotta be more to it than that.
>
> I ran the above command then did #emerge -C dir2ogg
> then #emerge -pv dir2ogg:
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N    ] media-sound/dir2ogg-0.8  0 kB
>
> >From man make.conf there is this, the only mention of
>
> /etc/portage:
>
> suidctl
>     Before merging packages to the live filesystem,
> automatically strip setuid bits from any file that is
> not listed in /etc/portage/suidctl.conf.
>
> So, if portage is supposed to read package.keywords I
> don't know where the link would be made.

It is built into 'emerge' AFAIK...

You have made a typo or some other mistake. It is documented in the portage 
guide: 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3#doc_chap2

Again, ensure that you have the line:

media-sound/dir2ogg ~x86

in "/etc/portage/package.keywords"

Note that this assumes you are running "x86" ARCH. If you are using a 
different arch then do the same thing but change the arch to what you are 
using: ie: "~sparc", "~ppc", or "~amd64".

-d
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