emerge -U after x.org installation

d99ma · Last edited by d99ma on Wed May 05, 2004 1:22 pm; edited 2 times in total

I have a problem after changing from XFree to X.org.
When I do emerge -U world i get the following:

robmoss · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 12:27 pm Post subject:

No, don't use "-U", it will break things - check out the link in my sig.

I would suggest:

d99ma · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the help.

The problem was that xorg-x11 is ~x86 masked and thats why portage wanted to use xfree.

Adding x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords solved the problem.

I'l look into using your method instead as it seems a lot better.
I see trouble though. Beacuse when the package e.g. gnome-2.6 goes stable I don't want to continue using ~x86 gnome. So there is a lot of monitoring. And that get hard when I have a lot of packages, for instance all the gnome related packages.

/Martin

d99ma · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 1:21 pm Post subject:

And a thing like linux-headers isn't working in your system. I have linux-headers-2.6.5 installed. emerge -u world wants to downgrade them to 2.4 not what I want. I add them to package.keywords but then emerge -u world wants to upgrade them to 2.6.22 not what I want either.

How do I solve problems like theese?

robmoss · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject:

Well linux-headers are -* masked, not ~x86 masked. So you're using something marked as broken rather than testing (although IMHO it's probably time to move these to testing). So in package.keywords, you instead want:

d99ma · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

Yes of course downgrade to 2.4.22 is what I meant.

Thanks again!