On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Michael M <thecr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the help, I will give it a go. > > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > >> Michael M writes: >> >> > Hello list, I need to install Cairo bindings for dev-lang/php-5*. Is >> > there a pecl-cairo overlay for ~x86? I've tried unmasking this >> > package and adding the keyword ~amd64 and it seems to want to install >> > with emerge but my system is ~x86. >> > >> > According to this site it is only ~amd64, but I cannot understand why. >> > http://gpo.zugaina.org/dev-php5/pecl-cairo >> >> As Sam pointed out, maybe it's working, but but just not tested on other >> architectures. To try without modifying the ebuild, you could put the >> package into /etc/portage/package.keywords, followed by a ~*. From the >> portage man page: >> >> Note: >> In addition to the normal values from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS package.keywords >> supports three special tokens: >> >> * package is visible if it is stable on any architecture >> ~* package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture >> ** package is always visible (KEYWORDS are ignored completely) >> >> >> Wonko >> >> > > ~* worked fine. Thanks again.