on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:08:37 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > So what makes you think portage is ignoring them? > > > Well, two things, -- I was trying to emerge a package which had a > > higher version in the overlay and which I had put in my > > /etc/portage/package.keywords file, but I got a reinstall of the > > existing package instead. And second when it was working after the > > rebuild info it would say [1] <overlay directory> > > [2] <another overlay directory> but it is not saying that now. Am I > > missing something here? > > This would also happen if your package.keywords entry was incorrect. eix, > after running update-eix, should indicate overlay packages, even when > they have the same version number as in the main portage tree.
OK, well I am getting interesting results -- when I did this before I took all the packages in the overlay tree and simply put ~x86 after each one and put each line in /etc/portage/package.keywords -- there were 1 or two which I had to put in package.unmask, but generally this worked. Now, according to eix, the packages are now masked not just by keyword, so I would have to put them all in package.unmask. I wonder what happened to change this? And portage does not tell you that you have a package which is masked even in verbose mode -- should it do so? It does tell you if its by keyword, but not by package.mask somewhere. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list