On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:49, a tiny voice compelled Brett I. Holcomb to write: > Okay - I figured you did but wasn't sure. > > If you have a space before the asterisk it's a problem and it appears you > do - at least in the email. > > On Sunday 11 December 2005 11:13, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 23:07, a tiny voice compelled Brett I. > > Holcomb to > > > > write: > > > You say you did it in your home directory but portage looks at > > > /etc/portage for the files such as package.keywords. Did you move it > > > to /etc/portage? > > > > > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:02, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > Bump > > > > Oh yes I did move it to the right place. should have made that clearer. > > > > $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords > > snip > > > kde-base/kdeartwork-wallpapers ~x86 > > kde-base/kdebase * ~x86 > > > > I cut about 2/3 of the list, but I do notice several entries like the > > last. I'm wondering if that is my problem. (kde-base/kdebase * ~x86) > > > > > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > 100% Microsoft and Intel free > > > > 11:06:44 up 1 day, 2:30, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.09 > > Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ > > -- > > Brett I. Holcomb
You're right, some were right but the majority were wrong (<space>*. I fixed that but my box still wants to downgrade 50 or 60m packages. I tried using --tree but see no reason that these packages are being brought in. I do have a line in the output that I don't understand, and maybe someone can explain that too. I'll include a couple of lines before and after. [ebuild UD] sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 [1.4.4] [ebuild UD] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3-r1 [3.2] [nomerge ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.01 [ebuild UD] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r8 [5.8.7-r2] [ebuild UD] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6-r1 [5.8.7] Where does the "nomerge" come from? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 16:12:57 up 1 day, 7:36, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.28, 0.60 Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
