[ale] emerge help

[Lawrence Hamblin]

Another way of updating those config files is to enter the command
dispatch-conf after you do an emerge.  That will run through every config
file to be updated and show you what would be changed: a line starting with
a plus sign would be added to the existing file, and one starting with a
minus sign would be deleted from it.  You can then decide whether to use
the new file or "zap" (delete) it.

Dispatch-conf comes in handy if you have your CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf
set to "/etc", which is what I have on my system.

-Lawrence

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM, rhia <rhiannen at atlantacon.org> wrote:

> Chris
>
> Pre-coffee, so hopefully coherent-ish enough.
>
>
> Edit /etc/portage/package.keywords and add the line
> =sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3 ~x86
>
> Edit /etc/portage/package.mask and add the line
> =sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3
>
>
> For "Use eselect news to read news items" enter at the prompt:
>  eselect news read new
> (Never know, it might actually be relevant to what you're doing.)
>
> Then emerge sys-devel/gettext again
>
>
> rhia
>
>
> On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 10:57 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > I'm new at gentoo and I'm messing with rebuilding sysrescuecd with some
> > apps.
> >
> > I'm getting this output
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > sysresccd portage # emerge sys-devel/gettext
> >
> >  * IMPORTANT: 5 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
> >  * Use eselect news to read news items.
> >
> >
> >  * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/package.keywords' needs
> > updating.
> >  * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
> >  * man page to learn how to update config files.
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > [ebuild  N    #] sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3  USE="acl cxx git nls
> > openmp -doc -emacs -java -static-libs"
> >
> > The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
> > #required by sys-devel/gettext (argument)
> > >=sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3 ~x86
> >
> > The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
> > #required by sys-devel/gettext (argument)
> > # /etc/portage/package.mask:
> > # fix problems
> > >=sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3
> >
> > NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting
> >       EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" in make.conf.
> >
> > Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring
> > CONFIG_PROTECT).
> >
> >  * IMPORTANT: 5 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
> >  * Use eselect news to read news items.
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Maybe a translation of what I need to do :)
> >
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