help unmasking sys-apps/ed

praka123 · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject: help unmasking sys-apps/ed

Hello,
I am upgrading to modular Xorg 7 and already removed Xorg6.8 and now i added packages that needs upgrade in /etc/portage/package.keywords like :

mutlu_inek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 141

That is weird. This package is not meant to be masked. See http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?ed-0.2-r6

I have it on my system and it is not in any of the package.* files.

Have you recently done emerge --sync? If yes, you might want to file a bug.
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alphonce · Apprentice Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 184 Location: Sweden

the ed package is stable on all archs so try removing it complete from the masked packages.
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dgaffuri · Advocate Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 2078 Location: Italy

I realize this is not a direct answer to your question, but there's only one version of ed, ed-0.2-r6, and it's not masked for any arch except x86-fbsd. What happens if you remove it from package.keywords?

Edit: late answer

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praka123 · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject:

now i am in a position where i removed xorg6.8 fully and no X available.i cant complete Xorg7 upgrade due to "ed" masked problem.so please help...how do i unmask
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Maedhros · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

Does upgrading portage help you? It looks like portage-2.1_pre10-r1 broke some things in a similar way to what you're seeing:

[portage-2.1_pre10-r1] introduced inconsistency (solved)
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praka123 · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the help after emerge --sync ,i upgraded portage to Portage-2.1_pre10-r2. and i am able to emerge ed also.now i need to emerge xorg-x11..wait i'll post the results.Thanks again!

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Maedhros · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject:

Glad that worked for you.

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads in favour of the thread linked above.
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