on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:08:37 -0400, John covici wrote:
>
> > > So what makes you think portage is ignoring them?
>
> > Well, two things, -- I was trying to emerge a package which had a
> > higher version in the overlay and which I had put in my
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords file, but I got a reinstall of the
> > existing package instead. And second when it was working after the
> > rebuild info it would say [1] <overlay directory>
> > [2] <another overlay directory> but it is not saying that now. Am I
> > missing something here?
>
> This would also happen if your package.keywords entry was incorrect. eix,
> after running update-eix, should indicate overlay packages, even when
> they have the same version number as in the main portage tree.
OK, well I am getting interesting results -- when I did this before I
took all the packages in the overlay tree and simply put ~x86 after
each one and put each line in /etc/portage/package.keywords -- there
were 1 or two which I had to put in package.unmask, but generally this
worked. Now, according to eix, the packages are now masked not just
by keyword, so I would have to put them all in package.unmask. I
wonder what happened to change this? And portage does not tell you
that you have a package which is masked even in verbose mode -- should
it do so? It does tell you if its by keyword, but not by package.mask
somewhere.
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John Covici
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