Take another look at the ebuild. The package is masked for x86. KEYWORDS="~x86 -ppc -sparc -alpha"
Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 6, 2003 2:16 pm Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage and updates > Can someone help me what I'm missing? > > I have rar-3.0 installed. I see that rar-3.11 is available for > download, so naturally I rsync. > > Still, there are no rar 3.11 available for update. So I look in > /usr/portage/app-arch/rar to check if I can help out making an ebuild > for it and share it on bugzilla. > > Of course, there are a rar-3.1.1.ebuild there. But still not available > for upgrade. So I figure it must be masked. I open > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, and search for 'rar' to see the > reason why it's masked. > > Now, here is the big surprise (for me atleast), it's not masked. > > So, it's not masked, the version number for it is higher than the > currently installed version, yet it doesn't present itself for an > upgrade... How come? > > Is there another file which masks this package? Is the naming standard > wrong? Am I failing to understand something simple? > > TIA, > //Humming > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
