James schreef: > Hello, > > Jffnms is masked. However I am able to install it on an intel portable > by adding this line to the /etc/portage/package.keywords > net-analyzer/jffnms ~x86 > > This is pretty must standard approach. > > However, on a gentoo system that I manually hacked a jffnms installation > on on a very early (experimental) ebuild does not even show jffnms > as a masked package. It intalled configuration file is /etc/jffnms, but > I delete that dir and contents. Still I cannot install the jffnms > masked package on this one system. Everyother system can install jffnms > with the aforementioned line added to package.keywords. > > Any ideas how to track this down? Should I just copy over the ebuild manually > to /usr/portage/distfiles ?
Ebuilds don't go in /usr/portage/distfiles, so doing that won't help you. When you say that you "manually hacked an installation", what do you mean? If you created an ebuild in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY (the correct procedure), do you still have an overlay directory enabled (preferably the same one), in /etc/make.conf? If you put your ebuild in the regular Portage tree, and you have since synced , the "illegal" ebuild has likely been removed. In that case, I would suggest enabling an overlay in /etc/make.conf, setting up an overlay tree (default location is /usr/local/portage), putting the ebuild there, then digesting it. It should then emerge normally. Did you even install the previous 'hack' with Portage? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
