[gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[sean]

What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by: 
missing keyword)?
 From what I read it is supposed to be done with the package.keywords 
file in /etc/portage.
But I must be doing something wrong with format.

Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 system. I 
have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me.

					Thanks
					Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[Dale]

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This is how my unmasked packages looks:

net-www/netscape-flash ~x86
app-sci/foldingathome ~x86

Just replace with what applies to you of course.  That is in
package.keywords file of course.

Dale

sean wrote:

> What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by:
> missing keyword)?
> From what I read it is supposed to be done with the package.keywords
> file in /etc/portage.
> But I must be doing something wrong with format.
>
> Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 system.
> I have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me.
>
>                     Thanks
>                     Sean


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Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[Holly Bostick]

sean schreef:
> What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by: 
> missing keyword)? From what I read it is supposed to be done with the
>  package.keywords file in /etc/portage. But I must be doing something
>  wrong with format.
> 
> Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 
> system. I have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me.
> 
> Thanks Sean

'Missing keyword' is a very specific state, different from masking,
keyword ~arch, or other kinds of blocks;

>From packages.gentoo.org

openoffice
Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite.
Releases	alpha	amd64	arm	hppa	ia64	mips	ppc	ppc64	ppc macos	s390	sparc	x86
2.0.0		 	- 	- 	   - 	      - 	- 	   - 	      ~ 	- 	           -
        - 	       - 	   ~

You see that "-" under the alpha, amd64, arm, hppa and all other
architectures than ppc and x86?

Those "-" are missing keywords. This package is only rated (as unstable)
for ppc and x86 architectures. On all other arches, the build is so
unstable, or so untested, that it is not keyworded at all.

Which is why the legend on p.g.o says

"- not available"

Now, if you really really want to test such a build in the name of
science, you can of course do so, but you will have to jump through a
hoop or two because you really are not meant to be using this package
unless you mean to help troubleshoot:

First thing to do is to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords:

app-office/openoffice -*

This will unmask the build with the missing keyword.

Try running the emerge again, but there's a fair likelihood that you
will hit a further mask, like package.mask.

If so, you should again consider if you *really* want to unmerge this
package; if it's masked up the wazoo, are you sure that you have the
time and energy to deal with the problems it apparently has, and help
solve them? If not, find an alternative (like openoffice-bin, which is
marked as unstable for amd64).

If so, then add the package to /etc/portage/package.unmask

=app-office/openoffice-2.0.0

and see how far you get.

Be warned, it's quite possible that the package will not compile, or
will have problems compiling-- openoffice is quite hard to compile under
the best of circumstances, and these are not them. There have been a lot
of changes, both in the program itself (hence the 2.0 version) and in
the supporting infrastructure (gtk libraries, freedesktop.org specs, X
itself not to mention the deeper backend libraries), and how these
things are going to interact on a 'sensitive' system architecture is
anybody's guess.

But of course, somebody has to take the plunge and report back for the
issue to progress any further, so if you want to do that, good luck.

If you don't want to do that, but rather just use the program, unmask
and install the bin package.

HTH,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[sean]

Holly Bostick wrote:
> sean schreef:
> 
>>What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by: 
>>missing keyword)? From what I read it is supposed to be done with the
>> package.keywords file in /etc/portage. But I must be doing something
>> wrong with format.
>>
>>Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 
>>system. I have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me.
>>
>>Thanks Sean
> 
> 
> 'Missing keyword' is a very specific state, different from masking,
> keyword ~arch, or other kinds of blocks;
> 
>>From packages.gentoo.org
> 
> openoffice
> Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite.
> Releases	alpha	amd64	arm	hppa	ia64	mips	ppc	ppc64	ppc macos	s390	sparc	x86
> 2.0.0		 	- 	- 	   - 	      - 	- 	   - 	      ~ 	- 	           -
>         - 	       - 	   ~
> 
> You see that "-" under the alpha, amd64, arm, hppa and all other
> architectures than ppc and x86?
> 
> Those "-" are missing keywords. This package is only rated (as unstable)
> for ppc and x86 architectures. On all other arches, the build is so
> unstable, or so untested, that it is not keyworded at all.
> 
> Which is why the legend on p.g.o says
> 
> "- not available"
> 
> Now, if you really really want to test such a build in the name of
> science, you can of course do so, but you will have to jump through a
> hoop or two because you really are not meant to be using this package
> unless you mean to help troubleshoot:
> 
> First thing to do is to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords:
> 
> app-office/openoffice -*
> 
> This will unmask the build with the missing keyword.
> 
> Try running the emerge again, but there's a fair likelihood that you
> will hit a further mask, like package.mask.
> 
> If so, you should again consider if you *really* want to unmerge this
> package; if it's masked up the wazoo, are you sure that you have the
> time and energy to deal with the problems it apparently has, and help
> solve them? If not, find an alternative (like openoffice-bin, which is
> marked as unstable for amd64).
> 
> If so, then add the package to /etc/portage/package.unmask
> 
> =app-office/openoffice-2.0.0
> 
> and see how far you get.
> 
> Be warned, it's quite possible that the package will not compile, or
> will have problems compiling-- openoffice is quite hard to compile under
> the best of circumstances, and these are not them. There have been a lot
> of changes, both in the program itself (hence the 2.0 version) and in
> the supporting infrastructure (gtk libraries, freedesktop.org specs, X
> itself not to mention the deeper backend libraries), and how these
> things are going to interact on a 'sensitive' system architecture is
> anybody's guess.
> 
> But of course, somebody has to take the plunge and report back for the
> issue to progress any further, so if you want to do that, good luck.
> 
> If you don't want to do that, but rather just use the program, unmask
> and install the bin package.
> 
> HTH,
> Holly

Hi Holly,

I can get it unmasked, I just can't clear the keyword.

This is what is currently in my keyword file.

app-office/openoffice -*
app-office/openoffice ~amd64

This is my unmask, which is working.
=app-office/openoffice-2.0.0

			Thanks
			Sean

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Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[sean]

Dale wrote:
> This is how my unmasked packages looks:
> 
> net-www/netscape-flash ~x86
> app-sci/foldingathome ~x86
> 

Hi Dale,

I can get it unmasked, I just can't clear the keyword.

This is what is currently in my keyword file.

app-office/openoffice -*
app-office/openoffice ~amd64

This is my unmask, which is working.
=app-office/openoffice-2.0.0

				Thanks
				Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[Holly Bostick]

sean schreef:
> 
> Hi Holly,
> 
> I can get it unmasked, I just can't clear the keyword.
> 
> This is what is currently in my keyword file.
> 
> app-office/openoffice -* app-office/openoffice ~amd64
> 
> This is my unmask, which is working. =app-office/openoffice-2.0.0
> 
> Thanks Sean
> 

Ha (not laughing at you)-- this is a silly mistake that I know is silly
because I've made it myself until I figured out the trick.

Put both unmasks on the same line.

The second line is overriding the first (masks, like keywords and USE
flags) are not cumulative over subsequent entries.

If you do it like this

> app-office/openoffice -* 
> app-office/openoffice ~amd64

The first line unmasks just the -*, then the second line remasks
everything and unmasks amd64.

But if you do it like this

> app-office/openoffice -* ~amd64

both masks will be unmasked.

Hope this helps.

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:17:07 -0400 sean <rsh.lists@comcast.net> wrote:
| Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64
| system. I have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me.

Unmasking it won't do you any good. It won't work.

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[gentoo-user] Re: (masked by: missing keyword)

[Tim Kruse]

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* On 29.10.2005 sean wrote:

> What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by: 
> missing keyword)?

 The only way I know of is to change the ebuild. But don't do
this on the ebuild in your normal portage dir (it will be
overridden after the next sync). Copy the ebuild to
'${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/category/name/package.ebuild' and do your
changes there (in this case
'${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/app-office/openoffice/openoffice-2.0.0.ebuild')

 Now you have to add your architecture into the KEYWORDS variable
(here: KEYWORDS="amd64") and it should work. (Perhaps you have to
update your portage cache, I don't know).

 But, as Ciaran said, don't do it with openoffice-2.0.0, because
it won't work under amd64.

>  From what I read it is supposed to be done with the package.keywords 
> file in /etc/portage.
> But I must be doing something wrong with format.

 I'm not really sure, but you can't unmask packages marked by
missing keyword with any of these files in /etc/portage
(specially /etc/portage/package.keywords) IIRC. With these files
you can unmask packages masked by
/usr/portage/profiles/package.unmask (/etc/portage/package.mask)
or marked testing in the ebuild (~amd64) if are running a stable
gentoo (read: set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" in /etc/make.conf)
(/etc/portage/package.keywords)

 You can do lots more here. Read 'man portage' for details.

> Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 system. I 
> have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me.

 As mentioned above it won't work.

 So long,
tkr

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