[olug] emerge a "masked" package?

Daniel Linder dan at linder.org
Thu Aug 25 16:46:06 UTC 2005


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On Thu, August 25, 2005 10:25, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> I run ~x86 without difficulty on several platforms.
>
> For one package + depends, the command would be:
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge jpgraph

- From the FAQ I ended up putting the following line into my
/etc/portage/package.keywords file:
dev-php/jpgraph ~x86

- From what I understand, this way if there is an update to JPGraph but it
is still masked by the ~x86, it will install the update anyway.

Thanks for all the hints!

Dan

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