baselayout-lite will probably be obsoleted very soon in favor of baselayout-2 (aka openrc). A project developed with busybox,mdev etc in mind. I highly suggest you explore that route vs -lite.
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:02 -0800, Phani Babu Giddi wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to emerge baselayout-lite using the following command > > ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge embedded_rootfs > baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1.ebuild > > It fails with the following message. > > > *** emerging by path is broken and may not always work!!! > Calculating dependencies - > *** You are emerging a masked package. It is MUCH better to use > *** /etc/portage/package.* to accomplish this. See portage(5) man > *** page for details. > >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting... > >>> (Control-C to abort)... > Continuing... in: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 > | > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy " baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1.ebuild" > have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: > - sys-apps/baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1 (masked by: missing keyword) > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man > page or > refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > > Now based on the mailing list and man pages I try to fix it but > nothing seem to work. > > 1. I checked that the package is not masked > in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask > 2. /etc/portage/package.keywords/ is a directory and not a file like > everybody else is seeing. > 3. The KEYWORDS > in /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout-lite/baselayout-lite-1.0_pre1.ebuild is "" > > Please help me with this. > > Regards, > Phani -- [email protected] mailing list
