Mitko Moshev <mo6eeeb <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> >>[blocks B ]
<media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r3 (is blocking
> >>x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1)
> >>What's the trick to do this update?
> The newest ati-drivers are pmasked. That means they are still considered
> unstable (they DO work. I have no problems. all this means is they
> aren't guaranteed to work 99.9% of the time. more like 95%). All you
> need to do is add "media-video/ati-drivers ~x86" to
> /etc/portage/package.keywords . This assumes that your arch is x86 if
> you have and amd64 or ppc, adjust accordingly. Read the handbook about
> things like package.mask, masked packages, etc. after that a simple
> emerge -u ati-drivers will update them.
What sort of thing would happen if the ati-drivers did not work?
I have an enormous amount of packages that
cannot be upgraded until I
upgrade the ati-drivers ( to 8.10.10 from 8.8.25).
If I do this, how will I know when I can remove this from the
package.keywords list? Or do I just leave this
"media-video/ati-drivers ~x86"
in the package.keywords list forever?
I'm going to do the upgrade as you have suggested.
Thanks!
James
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