On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:03, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Silly question, Where can I find out why an ebuild is masked, for example
> abcde 2.0.3 is the latest unmasked version, ebuilds up to 2.1.6 exist,
> what's wrong with them?
>
> Rick
>
I'd say they are ~x86 which means 'testing'. 

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p abcde

for really masked packages there might be some info in package.mask
'less /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask'

Besides that I recommend reading:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-user.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml

Good Luck and enjoy reading.

Roger

(roger55 on #gentoo)


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