On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:48:40 -0400, John covici wrote: > > This would also happen if your package.keywords entry was incorrect. > > eix, after running update-eix, should indicate overlay packages, > > even when they have the same version number as in the main portage > > tree. > > OK, well I am getting interesting results -- when I did this before I > took all the packages in the overlay tree and simply put ~x86 after > each one and put each line in /etc/portage/package.keywords -- there > were 1 or two which I had to put in package.unmask, but generally this > worked. Now, according to eix, the packages are now masked not just > by keyword, so I would have to put them all in package.unmask. I > wonder what happened to change this? And portage does not tell you > that you have a package which is masked even in verbose mode -- should > it do so? It does tell you if its by keyword, but not by package.mask > somewhere.
Portage does tell you if the only available versions of a package are masked, otherwise it just gives you the latest available version. It would really help if you gave some concrete information, such as the results of eix somepkg emerge -pv somepkg grep -r somepkg /etc/portage -- Neil Bothwick Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
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