Fabian Steiner posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:49:09 +0100:
> Hi, > > now >=/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6 are even masked by > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? How may this happen? Duh... I forgot about that!! Reread the first step in the upgrade to 2005.0 guide. You need to unmask it by putting the same (basic) entry in /etc/portage/package.unmask. The profiles.mask is there by default for the folks still stuck on 2.4 kernels, so the devs could combine the linux-headers-2.4 and 2.6 versions and terminate the linux26-headers package, so those wanting linux-headers-2.6 currently have to unmask it. It's possible/probable you had unmasked it originally, but something happened to the unmask entry. Either that or you unmasked it by removing the entry in profiles/package.mask directly, and your change was of course undone at the next emerge sync. Anyway, hopefully curing that issue will get the thing straightened out for you. Of course, if the virtual is masked, portage will try to find another and/or throw fits, which is exactly what it was doing. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
