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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:11:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702181311.18624.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D8592F.8050601@gmail.com>

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On Sunday 18 February 2007 13:48, Jakob Buchgraber wrote:
> Jan Stępień wrote:

> > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
> > or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
[snip...]

> There is one interesting part in the output of emerge
>
>  >> x11-plugins/beryl-plugins-0.1.99.2 (masked by: missing keyword)
>
> This means that the package hasn't been tested yet.
> So you need to replace the following in package.keywords
> x11-plugins/beryl-plugins
> by
> x11-plugins/beryl-plugins ~x86
>
> If you are using another architecture than x86  (like amd64) you need to
> write ~amd64 instead

Before you do any of the above I suggest that you read MASKED PACKAGES section 
and KEYWORDS section within man emerge.  It's better that you understand what 
you are masking/unmasking in the long run and why.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-18 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-18  7:11 [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins Jan Stępień
2007-02-18 13:48 ` Jakob Buchgraber
2007-02-18 13:11   ` Mick [this message]
2007-02-18 22:14     ` Jan Stępień
2007-02-18 20:37   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-18 22:19   ` Jan Stępień
2007-02-18 22:35     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-19 14:09       ` Jan Stępień
2007-02-19 14:57         ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-19 16:52         ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-02-19 20:24           ` Jan Stępień
2007-02-18 22:40     ` Mick
2007-02-19 14:13       ` Jan Stępień

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