On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > John covici schrieb: >> on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote >> > John covici ??????: >> > > Sorry if this is a duplicate -- II never got it back, so I am sending >> > > it again. >> > > > > Hi. I was trying to do an emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y >> world >> > > and got the following error: >> > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/policykit-0.6" >> have >> > > been masked. >> > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your >> > > request: >> > > - sys-auth/policykit-0.6 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) >> > > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >> > > # Saleem Abdulrasool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Nov 2007) >> > > # Mask this until we get the input and mounting issues worked out >> > > > > In view of this comment, should I unmaks it anyway and if not, >> how can >> > > I get past this one? >> > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated. >> > > > Hi, >> > Just add "-t"(--tree) to your emerge command, it'll probably show which >> > app requires policykit. >> > Then mask the update (not policykit) till the issues are fixed. >> > Or omit --deep which could eventually help here. >> Well it said that dependency required by "sys-apps/hal-0.5.10" >> [ebuild] so how do I prevent the update of hal and still be able >> to let the rest of them go through? The -t gave nothing more. > > sys-apps/hal-0.5.10 is masked itself. Why have you unmasked it? > > Remove the unmask of hal-0.5.10 and go back to version 0.5.9.1-r3, The > masked version needs policykit, so no way around this! > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > Hi,
+1 - please check the contents of your: /etc/portage/package.unmask file IIRC. Remove (comment) any entries you don't know why they are there. Could also check the system profile: ls -ld /etc/make.profile HTH. Rumen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
