[gentoo-user] Hard masked package

Hi All, I didn't have to do this before, so will need help to manage portage: A particular package has been hard masked for removal. I would like to either move it in my local portage, or even better emerge a more recent version. So, I found an ebuild, modified it a bit and now I am trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard masked package

On 7/17/09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I didn't have to do this before, so will need help to manage portage: A particular package has been hard masked for removal. I would like to either move it in my local portage, or even better emerge a more recent version. So, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard masked package

2009/7/17 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com: man portage: package.unmask                     Just  like package.mask above, except here you list packages you want to unmask.  Useful for overriding the global package.mask file (see                     below).  Note that this does not override