Bug 117136

Summary:	amd64 faq
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	ivo welch <ivo.welch>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ivo welch 2005-12-29 17:17:30 UTC

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml :


as example, you should not give 
  # echo "category/package ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
but something more relevant, i.e., using the ~amd64 flag, not the ~86 flag.


in the following:

I want to install package foo, but emerge says: (masked by: missing keyword)

This means that the package has not been tested yet. It does not necessarily mean that the package does not work. You can unmask it by accepting another architecture for the package. The following example shows you can tell Portage to accept the ~x86 keyword for a given package.

Code Listing 4.2: Example of adding package keywords

# echo "category/package ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge package

If it works fine for you, please let us know and file a bug on Gentoo's Bugzilla, so that the AMD64 team can keyword the package and other users can benefit from your test.

Warning: Do not try commands like ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge package. It will most certainly break your tree.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-12-29 17:18:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115266 ***