On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:18:42 Dale wrote:
> >>> Ganglia fails to compile. Any ideas?
> >>
> >> You could try again with v3.0.3 or possibly v3.0.4 (bug #172206 [1])...
> >>
> >> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172206
> >
> > obufki gms # USE="~x86" emerge -s ganglia
> > Searching...  [ Results for search key : ganglia ]
> > [ Applications found : 1 ]
> >
> > *  sys-cluster/ganglia
> >      Latest version available: 2.5.7
> >      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> >      Size of files: 485 kB
> >      Homepage:      http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
> >      Description:   Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring
> > system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids
> >      License:       BSD
> >
> > How do I find the v3.0.n versions?

Apparently emerge -s isn't sensitive to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line. 
That's a crappy way to search anyway. Use app-portage/eix.

> Well, according to this:
[SNIP]
> it is in portage.  You will need to add it to package.unmask

No you won't. It's not hard masked.

> and package.keywords file in /etc/portage.  Then it will emerge it for you.

Right.

> Put this in package.keywords  =sys-cluster/ganglia-3.0.3  ~x86

Better to use ~sys-cluster/ganglia-3.0.3 ~x86. That way you get minor bugfixes 
too...

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Bo Andresen