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baf Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 126 Location: Swabian Mountains
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:41 am Post subject: emerging a masked package |
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hi,
i would like to emerge a german-english dictionary 'ding' which i used to work with on SuSE linux. unfortunately it is a masked ebuild.
now my question is: do i have to expect any problems with later system or world updates if i emerge a masked package? are there any things i should be aware of?
is it sufficient to mark the 'ding' ebuild only temporarily as unmasked? or du i have to make further changes to any files?
thanks for your help.
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StuBear Apprentice
Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 157 Location: Melbourne,AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:59 am Post subject: |
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There are currently 2 ways to mask a package ~arch (x86, ppc, sparc) and package.mask. The former is the easiest to deal with.
Just do Code: | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ding | replace x86 with your arch!
If a package is masked in package.mask then you can edit this file (in /usr/portage/profile/) and comment out the line with the ebuild name in it, then just emerge ding
Another way to emerge any package (masked or not) is to give the full path name to the ebuild Code: | emerge /usr/portage/app-dicts/ding-<ver>.ebuild |
The only thing to be aware with when using masked ebuilds is that emerge -up world will try to downgrade you to a non-masked version if possible. If all versions of ding are masked then you should have no problems |
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bsolar Bodhisattva
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Check this FAQ. _________________ I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. |
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