[TriLUG] Gentoo updates and dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0-r1

[tomed at bellsouth.net]

I'll try that, thanks. The mask on sun java 1.6 seems to be a minor bug
relating to some sort of java management utility that I don't think I'll
ever use.

Tom Ed

At Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:19:30 -0500,
<OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> 
> Add 
> 
> =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6* 
> 
> to /etc/portage/package.use (or package.keywords) ...I can't remember
> which one off the top of my head. Or you could always use a one time
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge sun-jdk. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of tomed at bellsouth.net
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:43 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] Gentoo updates and dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0-r1
> 
> Greetings TriLug Gentooers,
> 
> I haven't been able to do any updates for a few weeks now, because the
> base system jdk has changed to virtual/jdk-1.6.0, and the Sun version of
> this is masked.
> 
> Any suggestions on a safe way to get beyond this? I'd prefer to continue
> using Sun.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom Ed
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