mutella + readline issues

n0n · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 355

I'd like to emerge net-p2p/mutella-0.4 (although I'll probably grab the 0.4.1 ebuild from here), but as it turns out, it's masked. The commends in package.mask say: "Masked because readline-4.2 is masked in default-1.0." But as it turns out, readline-4.2 doesn't show up anywhere in my package.mask . . . I have a 4.2 ebuild in sys-libs, and if I try emerging the actual ebuild file, it'll let me, but just doing an "emerge readline" just reinstalls the version I currently have (4.1-r4) . . . Anybody know what's up with these?

(Edit: fixed a parenthetical error . . . DOH!)

n0n · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 355

Oh, now I begin to understand the "default-1.0" bit, now that I noticed the line "*<sys-libs/readline-4.2" in /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0/packages. Interesting. Okay, so another tangentially related question: It seems that /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0/packages was copied over to /etc/make.profile/packages, which is what Portage is using to tell me I shouldn't install readline-4.2 and up. When does this file get copied over? The timestamp on my /etc/make.profile/packages is from a few weeks ago, so it's obviously been updated sometime . . . And how would I select a different profile to use, if I wanted? Just copy over the appropriate one from /usr/portage/profiles? Not that I'm planning to do that, but I'm quite curious now.

n0n · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 355

Gah, this is turning out to be another one of those days where, were I to just wait a few seconds before posting, I could have just answered my own question.

After looking around the gcc3.2 thread, I noticed that /etc/make.profile is just a symlink, and evidentally if I felt like changing profiles, I could just update that link. So. Rock. We now return you to your regularly scheduled forums . . .

rizzo · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 5:29 pm Post subject:

j0.

I'm up on this same problem. Are you on gcc3.2? I'm still on 2.95. I tried symlinking to default-1.0_rc6 but now it tells me that all possible packages for ncurses are masked. meh.

I'd like to just wipe this box and go with gentoo 1.4 on reiserfs. 45 minutes fscks are not fun.