Sorry, I don't see the big difference between my reply and yours. But then again maybe my english is not perfect.
The only thing I tried to point out is that the virtuals are linked to real packages in /etc/make.profile/virtuals. If the "real" package is masked, then so is the virtual, yielding the error. I never meant to suggest that the symbolic link should be adapted! I meant that you can see which "real" kernel is connected to the virtual, which can give you the info on why the emerge fails. So if you have a masked kernel you could install another one. So essentially I meant to say the same thing as you did. Elton On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Marius Mauch wrote: > On 12/05/03 Elton Algera wrote: > > > Check the contents of /etc/make.profile/virtuals; e.g. > > > > grep linux-sources /etc/make.profile/virtuals > > > > in my case it gives sys-kernel/gentoo-sources. > > You can change it, however, by changing profiles (/etc/make.profile > > symb. link) > > > > If this grep yields somethings else that's only masked then that's the > > trouble... > > Sorry, don't want to be rude but I have to say this: > Please don't give advise if you don't know what you're talking about. > What you suggested is complete nonsense and can be very dangerous. > > That said, the original problem is likely caused by ac-sources or > gaming-sources. > ac-sources is unmaintained upstream and therefore masked in > package.mask. If you really want to continue to use it you can unmask > them in /etc/portage/package.unmask, but I recommend that you switch to > another kernel package as there won't be new versions or fixes for > ac-sources. > There was an issue with gaming-sources a few days ago, don't really know > what caused it, it seems to work fine now (if you use > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"). If not run `emerge --sync` and try again. > > Marius > > -- > Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub > > In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be > Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
