TIP Unmasking multiple packages

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One of my biggest problems when upgrading to the latest KDE is unmasking lots and lots of packages. This article will help you use grep and awk to mask or unmask packages.

[edit] package.unmask/mask

Use this command to mask or unmask your package:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p =PackageName|awk '/ebuild/{print "<greater or less than symbol>" $4}' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask (or mask)

Here's an example to unmask every KDE package that is less than 3.5.0:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p =kde-meta-3.5.0|awk '/ebuild/{print "<" $4}' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

Change the file, package names and greater or less than symbols to get the job done.

(Special thanks to dli on #gentoo for the command)

• updated by Nick Anderson [1.19.07] removed unnecessary grep

[edit] Apply this Idea to other things!

--69.160.98.230 02:22, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

When emerging ~* packages, it can be very fustrating to have to worry about masked deps all the time. Using

"ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" isn't a good idea, since an emerge -u would downgrade those packages.

Here is what I used to emerge the ~x86 version of gnome, and all the dependencies

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p =PackageName|awk '/ebuild/{print ">=" $4 " ~x86" }' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

The exact commands I used to emerge gnome

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p =gnome|awk '/ebuild/{print ">=" $4 " ~x86"}' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -va gnome

• updated by Nick Anderson [1.19.07] removed unnecessary grep