I don't understand this error: -------------------------------------------------------------- Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: net-mail/mailman net-mail/dovecot mail-mta/exim media-sound/beep-media-player net-wireless/hostapd net-firewall/shorewall / !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "mail-mta/exim" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - mail-mta/exim-4.60-r1 (masked by: package.mask) - mail-mta/exim-4.54 (masked by: package.mask) - mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) # Fernando J. Pereda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (25 April 2005) # mask these until the new mailwrapper/mailer-config scheme is ready # it is secure to unmask them to test
- mail-mta/exim-4.60 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!! (dependency required by "dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5" [ebuild]) -------------------------------------------------------------- I don't have that old version of php installed and what does this mean? How can the latest version be LESS than what I have installed?! * dev-lang/php Latest version available: 5.0.5-r5 Latest version installed: 5.1.1 daevid ~ # emerge -Ca dev-lang/php >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: dev-lang/php selected: 5.1.1 protected: none omitted: none I do have some packages masked so as not to destabalize my server, but that doesn't explain the above errors. Plus there may be other packages I'd like to upgrade, but I can't "see" them until "emerge -Davu world" can get past that dependency issue above. daevid ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask >=mail-mta/exim-4.54 >=mail-mta/ssmtp-2.00 >=dev-lang/php-5.1.1 >=net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 >=net-mail/dovecot-0.99.14-r1 >=net-wireless/hostapd-0.4.7-r1 >=net-firewall/shorewall-2.4.2 And finally, I tried: USE="~x86" emerge -Davu world Shouldn't that just "unmask" everything and at least get past the error? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list