-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15:57, daniel wrote: >but putting the following in "/etc/portage/profiles/package.mask" > doesn't work: > >=dev-db/mysql-4.0.0 > > however, adding the above to /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask does work, > and so that's the route i'm going to get mysql up and running, but > obviously on the next emerge sync, i'm going to lose this minor change, so > i'd like to know what i missed. > > any pointers? the above line is the only contents of package.mask. > > ps. > i'm also having similar problems with package.unmask (ie. it doesn't seem > to have any effect). so i'm hoping that solving this problem will help me > solve that one.
Try /etc/portage/package.unmask and /etc/portage/package.mask. It recently moved out of the profiles/ directory. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Ha3IXVaO67S1rtsRAk0BAJsGyk2CZn/4Km/0dlcNy0zSsSHuLgCfedBp p5f1sQcIiaOydCRpy99gtb0= =5JMR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list