[clue-tech] gentoo mask - still won't build

Ken MacFerrin lists at macferrin.com
Thu Aug 31 11:26:37 MDT 2006


Dave Price wrote:
> Cluesters,
> 
> Almost got my arms around the gentoo way of building packages ...
> 
> I am trying to build fbpager on an amd64, and I am getting:
> 
> - x11-misc/fbpager-0.1.4 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
> 
> I have:
> 
> x11-misc/fbpager-0.1.4 ~amd64 in my /etc/portage/package.keywords
> 
> It still will not build - am I missing something, or is there another
> way to help things along?
> 

Don't list the version number in the package.keywords file, just the
package name.

x11-misc/fbpager-0.1.4 ~amd64

should be:

x11-misc/fbpager ~amd64



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