On Sunday 17 August 2003 08.54, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I know this was covered previously, but a proper solution was not given.
> I've done everything I can think of to unmask gcc331, but "emerge -uDp
> world" still wants to downgrade it. Even "emerge -UDp world" wants to
> downgrade it!
>
> I haven't bothered with packages.mask causing grepping it for gcc doesn't
> give anything for the version I want to use. In the ebuild itself I find
> "KEYWORDS='-*'" which I've changed to "KEYWORDS='~x86'" but it hasn't made
> a difference. /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1 also
> contained "-*" which I changed to "~x86" and it still makes no difference.
> I've even tried PORTAGE_OVERLAY but no cigar.
>
> I've checked all the dependencies and have all the required packages
> installed; i.e. it's not a package further down the tree that's masked. I
> honestly cannot see what I'm missing. The gcc33 forum says to unmask it in
> packages.mask but it's not in there - at least not anymore. Any
> suggestions?

Just copy it to your PORTAGE_OVERLAY directory and make it stable. "x86"

tony
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