[gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam 
I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted
because the package I was after was actually installed already.

I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old
anyway. 

I need Mesa libs onboard  (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage
for mesa libs I find:
 media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
  Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of downloaded files: 8,534 kB
  Homepage:http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
  Description: OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux
  License: LGPL-2

Ok, so far so good.  I'm running iwth ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf
so this should work.. I'm thinking but it doesn't

root # emerge -vp  media-libs/mesa
  These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
  Calculating dependencies   
  !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy media-libs/mesa have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
  your request:
  - media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
  # Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07 Aug 2005)
  # Modularized X, upstream release candidates

And the advice:
  For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
  page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.


Ok, Its the only ebuild available 
and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud
this circular masking problem.

Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Mike Williams 
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
 Ok, Its the only ebuild available 
 and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud
 this circular masking problem.

It's not a circular masking problem, mesa is package.mask'd, as in 
proper-unstable-breaks-the-tree-broken masked.

 Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me.

You could add media-libs/mesa to /etc/portage/package.unmask, but that will 
lead you into the (also package.mask'd) modularized X.
Modularized X is obviously not ready for unstable, and the version of mesa in 
the tree depends on that modularized version to work.

I don't think you are going to get mesa installed without a fair bit of 
trouble.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg 
Harry Putnam wrote:
 I need Mesa libs onboard  (its not mandatory ) so looking at
 partage for mesa libs I find:
  media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
   Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1
   Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

If you have xorg-6.8.2 installed, then you already have Mesa on 
board:

  equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa

Benno
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