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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:51 am    Post subject: package.use not being read [solved] Reply with quote

I created the file /etc/portage/package.use and its contents are:

Code:

app-office/oppenoffice sound
mail-client/thunderbird ldap -crypt
net-im/pidgin prediction
net-dns/avahi mdnsresponder-compat


However, emerge is not reading this file. That is, the use variables declared here do not have effect when I install the packages. Just as a mention, I am using the testing branch, that is, my make.conf has the following line:

Code:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just got this message from portge on an upgrade, maybe it can help
Code:
USE=crypt has been changed to USE=loop-aes.  If you need
 * support for it, make sure to update your USE accordingly.
 * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

But what about the others, that must still be read. What is the problem there?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please post the output of
Code:
emerge -vp openoffice
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's supposed to just work by default, from man emerge
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If you want those USE settings to be more per-
manent, you can put them in /etc/portage/package.use instead.

Can you try re-emerging portage maybe?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, reemrging portage also did not help. I really do not what is wrong, maybe I need to rebuild the entire system and world once more. Just getting a little desperate here, I need my computer back asap . :P
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These text files, including "/etc/portage/package.use", are sensitive to line end conventions. Can you ensure that each line is terminated with a single LF (0x0a) and not with a CR (0x0d) or CR/LF. Try
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od -tx1c /etc/portage/package.use
And, also note my other information request. :wink:

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

computer wrote:
$ emerge -vp app-office/oppenoffice

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies .
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "app-office/oppenoffice".
You might have more luck with app-office/openoffice ;-)
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Arg!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, the problem has been solved, as suggested earlier here, it was aproblem with the line breaks.
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