On Saturday 29 September 2007, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
> i run gentoo 2007.0 amd64...
^^^^^
There you go, that's your problem. The ebuild is keyworded ~x86, meaning
it won't emerge on amd64 without the necessary keyword. There's nothing
wrong with this keytword, it simply means that the dev hasn't rated it
for use on other arches.
It's possible that dzen won't build/run on any other arch, but that's
unlikely as there's no indication of this in the ebuild. All the emerge
output you quote below is normal for this situation.
Run this and re-emerge and see what happens:
echo "x11-misc/dzen **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
If it breaks you get to keep both pieces. Welcome to Gentoo :-)
alan
> this is the output when i try to emerge dzen:
>
> "# emerge -av dzen
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies |
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dzen" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - x11-misc/dzen-0.8.5 (masked by: missing keyword)
> - x11-misc/dzen-0.8.0 (masked by: missing keyword)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook."
>
> i suppose it's something wrong with the ~ keywords... :S
> so either i have an entry on /etc/portage/package.keywords,or not,i
> get the same error...
>
> O/H Alan McKinnon έγραψε:
> > On Saturday 29 September 2007, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
> >> i tried to emerge x11-misc/dzen but it was masked...
> >> does anybody know why?...and if i can do something... :S
> >> thx...
> >
> > It's not masked, it's keyworded ~86, which is something quite
> > different. It was imnported into portage in July so it's probably
> > still ~x86 simply because no-one has filed a stabilization bug.
> >
> > What arch are you running? It won't emerge onto x86_64 for instance
> > without a keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >
> > alan
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