From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NNmSI-0001kK-Jb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:06:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E300E09B9 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBABE08BD for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so9174373ewy.26 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:23:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Hc5XwvmpFcRYanUseym/0w2ZSDAHXXXjuoU+7D0lerU=; b=BfEqdF2wMlohwr+nxZor/fGYUbfNrlb5Y5K3Woqq29GJfhYaRGZauSpo5OtBNQ3jgt QuGnABNfVRssxCBTC1LvwOskDOFexjJZKr2LBvLdCNmEaENlimL6cMDOZETYJEkfOYZi Qcx0MnvBPmMy7iGFK3cIabI4YIwrUDmlnW6aw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=m0di2h4csLNQ7/NJQYEi66ybmbH/6uHeX88ItxTIgDGYTur8vos3rbj/snlVUEGIEb v5vbB5kmOSOz/p9/D46O0Yh7gTQ8+5qJHfHNhOcHVKP+R3nF9Zx5AW86iirFS+rBArU0 U7WcbYFqiifVAa8K9eFGJpw/wWEalYH6nmunI= Received: by 10.213.38.208 with SMTP id c16mr2998834ebe.7.1261650205787; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:23:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm5726224ewy.0.2009.12.24.02.23.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:23:24 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:21:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-zen9; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <53e35fd50912231714l6e3f4d30x88c160f12885aae7@mail.gmail.com> <4B332DC4.1040704@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4B332DC4.1040704@cox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912241221.50288.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a84f0d14-4a7e-44dc-b31c-227995474e81 X-Archives-Hash: faf8da47c3e56ca82d9bb7b42ef11238 On Thursday 24 December 2009 11:00:52 Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > > hi, > > > > i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. > > > > i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have > > kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said > > to have been masked, so i unmasked it. but while compiling, kvm-kmod > > failed with an error message like: > > > > cannot file arch/x86/kvm/trace.h file > > Masked packages are usually masked for a reason. I would check on google > and then the gentoo bugzilla and see if anyone else has had the same > problem, and how they fixed it. > > Marcus > /var/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Doug Goldstein (22 Nov 2009) # masking until this package can follow the actual # kvm-kmod upstream package app-emulation/kvm-kmod That seems to imply the reason for the hard mask is version incompatibility -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com