Holly Bostick <motub <at> planet.nl> writes:
> > 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.
Correct, they are not ebuild but the tar.bz2 files. I recently install
package realplayer:
RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
then emerged the package. I should have been more accurate with
the verbiage.
The bottom line is I can install jffnms which is masked on any system
but one. All are either intel or x86(athlon). I do not remember any of the
the details of the previous jffnms hacking attempts on this system.
So I deleted the /etc/jffnms/* directory and contents, but that did not
help.
On most systems I get these results:
emerge -s jffnms
Searching...
[ Results for search key : jffnms ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* net-analyzer/jffnms
Latest version available: 0.8.2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
On the one system that refuse to work I get:
emerge -s jffnms
Searching...
[ Results for search key : jffnms ]
[ Applications found : 0 ]
I just do not understand why one system (athlon) does not see the
package and the other ones do?
Is it the differences in the intel vs athlon archtecture?
I thought both were x86?
Both athlon systems do not show jffnms as a viable package
wtih 'emerge -s jffnms'.
Thoughts?
> 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?
PORTDIR_OVERLAY is not used on any of these systems.
> 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.
emerge -s jffnms does not show up on the athlon systems, including
one that never had jffnms installed.
> Did you even install the previous 'hack' with Portage?
Don't remember as I tried all sorts of things over several weeks....
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