I've manually added the ~alpha keyword to my portage and successfully installed and implemented a bugzilla/mysql site on Gentoo linux running on Alpha. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.53_rc3 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.2-r11,glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-rc4 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-rc4 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev56 -mtune=ev56 -O3 -pipe -mieee -mno-soft-float -mfp-regs" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev56 -mtune=ev56 -O3 -pipe -mieee -mno-soft-float -mfp-regs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha X arts berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl dlloader eds encode esd ev56 fam font-server foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib jpeg kde kerberos kerberosV ldap libg++ libwww mad mailwrapper mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff tls truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
all set, thanks