[gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:08 +, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? I should add that I tried to add it to package.unmask, but that didn't help. --

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/28/05, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package isin /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editingpackage.mask?Thanks,jules Hi, yes, you should not change /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but instead add the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:17 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:08 +, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? I should add that I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi Jules; there is a lot of documentation about masked packages on gentoo.wiki.com and on gentoo-handbook but if you want to unmask this package you can edit the file /etc/portage/package.keywords and insert the line =media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10 ~x86 if x86 is your machine arch ... good luck.