On Thursday 24 December 2009 11:00:52 Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > > hi, > > > > i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. > > > > i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have > > kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said > > to have been masked, so i unmasked it. but while compiling, kvm-kmod > > failed with an error message like: > > > > cannot file arch/x86/kvm/trace.h file > > Masked packages are usually masked for a reason. I would check on google > and then the gentoo bugzilla and see if anyone else has had the same > problem, and how they fixed it. > > Marcus >
/var/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Doug Goldstein <car...@gentoo.org> (22 Nov 2009) # masking until this package can follow the actual # kvm-kmod upstream package app-emulation/kvm-kmod That seems to imply the reason for the hard mask is version incompatibility -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
