On 14/07/2015 21:18, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:50:28 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On 14 July 2015 10:55:46 BST, hw <h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> now I found this:
>>>
>>>
>>> moonflo ~ # find /usr/portage/profiles/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0
>>> -P24 
>>> grep xen-tools 
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> /usr/portage/profiles/ChangeLog-2007:  Add hvm USE flag for Xen HVM 
>>> support in xen-tools. Mask on no-multilib
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>> And: http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/Xen
>>>
>>> "If you plan to add hvm support on amd64, you will need to have
>>> multilib 
>>> support."
>>>
>>>
>>> Of course, I don't have multilib.  Is that still required, and if so, 
>>> why?  There isn't any 32bit software to run other than within HVM
>>> guests 
>>> perhaps.
>>>
>>> How can I remove this mask?  I do need xen working last week ...
>>>
>>> Should I make a bug report about it?
>>
>> You override profiles in /etc/portage/profile. In this case add cat/pkg - 
>> hvm 
> to package.use.mask.
>>
>> man portage for more information 
>>
> 
> ha, I had tried (among other things) package.use.unmask following the 
> convention used by package.mask/unmask. Thanks.
> 

The directory is:

package.unmask

Read man portage. The answer you seek is there.



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