On 6/17/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Davison wrote: > > On Friday 17 June 2005 10:58, Paul wrote: > > > >>On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 19:45, Zac Medico wrote: > >><snip> > >> > >>>>>revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you > >>>>>cannot rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall the > >>>>>same binary, not build a new one. > >> > >>I just thought I would let you know what I've done to resolve this > >>problem. I have emerged gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 and made an entry in my > >>make.conf of SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt". > >>I then ran revdep-rebuild and all ran without any open office errors. > >> > > > > I may be misreading this thread but I just package mask the binaries I > > use as in OOo 1.9 whatever and the same for the mozilla family. Using > > gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 revdep-rebuild doesn't complain at all > > I've been happily using the SEARCH_DIRS_MASK feature since before > gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 was released (using the version from Bugzilla). I > don't follow that part about "package mask the binaries". Can you explain? > > Zac
I think he means /etc/portage/package.mask to stop the system from updating OO? That's my guess. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
