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rahulthewall
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 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject: package.use not being read [solved] |
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I created the file /etc/portage/package.use and its contents are:
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app-office/oppenoffice sound
mail-client/thunderbird ldap -crypt
net-im/pidgin prediction
net-dns/avahi mdnsresponder-compat
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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:
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
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Help! 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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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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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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But what about the others, that must still be read. What is the problem there?
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Please post the output of | Code: | | emerge -vp openoffice |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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It's supposed to just work by default, from man emerge
| Quote: | 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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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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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 . 
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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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 | Code: | | od -tx1c /etc/portage/package.use |
And, also note my other information request. 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| 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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Arg!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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OK, the problem has been solved, as suggested earlier here, it was aproblem with the line breaks.
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