I screwed up some ebuild files...

ir_i_s_h · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 5

I just installed gentoo this weekend for the first time. In a futile effort to change an imap dependency for mod_php from uw-imap to courier-imap (I have a USE imap flag set), I screwed up the ebuild files. So I did what anybody in my shoes would do, I rm -rf'd the /usr/portage/dev-php/mod_php dir then did an emerge sync. It copied the new files over my edited ones, however I still get errors when I try to install it. The error shows a portion of the ebuild file that I edited before (but no longer exists) and talks of masked dependency errors. I checked packages.mask and a few other files to no avail. I now know how I could have achieved what I was attempting to do, but I can't seem to fix those errors. Does anybody know what I'm rambling on about? My brazen attitude with a text editor never ceases to amaze me.

To summarize, I edited *.ebuild files in /usr/portage/dev-php/mod_php tried to emerge (failed), deleted those ebuild files, performed a sync and now get those same errors. What other files perform masking?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

You might try removing the /var/tmp/portage/mod_php directory.
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ir_i_s_h · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 5

Thanks for the quick response wolf.

I went ahead and tried it. Still shows me a masked dependency error. Have no idea where it is pulling that from. How many files can a ">=net-mail/courier-imap-1.6.1" mask from an ebuild edit be in?

rac · Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 8:39 am Post subject:

Does "emerge unmerge mod_php" help?
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ir_i_s_h · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 5

It hasnt successfully installed yet, so it just returns nothing matches mod_php. I have looked through this forum for the messages dealing with masks. I think I have looked through them all, but nothing turns up for a case like this. What happens when you edit a *.ebuild file and try to merge?

ir_i_s_h · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 5

I'm a little unclear as to what's happening with masking. But I'll have to leave that for another day. I went ahead and just emerged the .ebuild file directly for now.

Thanks for the timely responses.