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

["b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>]

maxim wexler ha scritto:
>> # 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

You probably didn't execute the previous command correctly. If I run 
"eix dir2ogg" that's the output:

* media-sound/dir2ogg
      Available versions:  0.8 ~0.9.1 ~0.9.2
      Installed:           none
      Homepage:            http://badcomputer.org/linux/dir2ogg/
      Description:         Converts MP3, M4A, and WAV files to OGG format.

This means that 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 are masked by ~.
The only really correct way to emerge these packages is to add them to 
package.keywords, as explained in the handbook.

 > So, if portage is supposed to read package.keywords I
 > don't know where the link would be made.

About /etc/portage/package.keywords:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3#doc_chap2

Go here and have a (small) read.
You'll find that probably you're doing something wrong on your side.

m.

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