On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:58 +0000, James wrote: > Well, I just tried something that seems to work, > but has me confused or missing the routine reading > of new portage features..... > > > Anyway upon a routine update (using portage 2.2_rc33 > and sets for kde4) I got a message: > > > All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-python/sip-4.8.1" have been masked. > One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - dev-python/sip-4.8.1 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) > > > So I just added this line to package.keywords: > > " >=dev-python/sip-4.8.1 " > > > > and it got passed that problem..... > > > 'man portage' does not show the use of the (><=) syntax > as an example for emerge....?
This is a package atom... which AFAIK has at least been part of portage since I've been using Gentoo (6 years). man 5 portage
