Chris Bare wrote:
> I just ran into an interesting problem. I am using ac-sources on my
> laptop, but when I go to update I get:
> Why does this show up as masked? It did not before.
> The ebuild has:
> KEYWORDS="x86"
>
> and I don't have an /etc/portage/packages.mask file, so I don't know
> why it's masked. Any ideas?

>From /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (02 Dec 2003)
# unmaintained upstream, I'll add pac instead
sys-kernel/ac-sources

Do the following to unmask it, but it sounds like you may want to change
kernels.

echo "=sys-kernel/ac-sources-2.4.22-r4" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

If you don't have an /etc/portage directory you will have to make it.

Regards,
Paul



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