On 8/9/05, Maik Musall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Kerin, > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:59:57PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > > > gentoo has currently just 0.3.12 available, and that only when enabling > > > x86 keyword. 0.3.92 is obviously an incomplete ebuild, and I'm also not > > > sure if that would satisfy the symbol LIBAIO_0.4. > > > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "incomplete". It should satisfy > > I meant, the ebuild is there, but is not emergable because it's not even > soft-masked (or I missed something about portage).
It's keyworded "-*" (which should normally be considered as a distinct warning against using it). Portage needs to assume the use of that keyword for this particular package. For instance: # echo "~dev-libs/libaio-0.3.92 -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Cheers, --Kerin Millar -- [email protected] mailing list
