Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Here's what it looks like: > > treat 1.5-bundles # emerge -av sun-jdk sun-sdk-docs > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies - > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0*" > have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) > # <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # lotsa things in the tree don't compile with 1.5 yet > # 1.5 defaults too -target 1.5 making downgrading to a 1.4(/1.3) > # impossible, see bug 65937 for more information/discussion > > > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or > section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. > !!! (dependency required by "dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.03" [ebuild]) > >
They're hard masked inside /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. For the full story see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65937. Short story: echo ">=dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask echo ">=dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.99" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask emerge sun-jdk sun-sdk-docs After that you may want to use java-config to set java-1.4 as the default system compiler. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list