Bug 76430

Summary:	Package recommended by Handbook is masked
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Paul James Miller <paul.j.miller>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Alpha
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul James Miller 2005-01-02 10:19:14 UTC

This is a bug in the documentation I think.
In section 7.d of the Installation Handbook it recommends installing coldplug when using genkernel to configure your kernel.

When you enter the line

emerge coldplug

as suggested by code listing 19. the emerge program states that coldplug has been masked ~x86.

Is it not unusual to recomment a supposedly unstable package in the installation documents. I got around this problem by adding

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

to the /etc/make.conf file. I just thought you ought to be aware of this situation.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.




Either the package needs to be made stable or the documentation needs changing.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-02 17:28:31 UTC

Check the comments in the other bug.

We are working with the documentation team to split out the documentation into separate revisions for each release.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74514 ***

Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-25 11:24:38 UTC

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.