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	Masked packages

renwklo

11-20-2006 8:54 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/23377f94-5f9b-4d9f-a4bd-83c512e365e3/CDC1A99F-D658-41A9-9B81-22B07B6FC1E9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages&oldid=90247" href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages&oldid=90247" style="font-size: 11px;">gentoo-wiki.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages&oldid=90247"><P>If emerge says that the package was masked by "~* keyword", you'll need to take it literally and use, for instance:
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages&oldid=90247"><PRE>echo "~gnome-extra/gdesklets-core-2.10.9 ~*" &gt;&gt; /etc/portage/package.keywords
</PRE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages&oldid=90247"><P>Hard Masked packages are unmasked by adding them to <FONT color="green">/etc/portage/package.unmask</FONT>. The syntax for this file, however, slightly differs from <FONT color="green">package.keywords</FONT>:
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages&oldid=90247"><PRE>echo "=app-admin/filewatcher-2.4.0" &gt;&gt; /etc/portage/package.unmask
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