Installation Emerge Problem - Every single packadge masked

[DingoBoy]

Hello, Fellow LinuxForum-goers.
As a first note, i only have 4-5 hours to fix this. Then am to be going to have to wait for a long time (say, two weeks) to try again. Just saying.

I just installed Gentoo, x86 (using the standart i686).
I followed the install instructions (this being my very first gentoo Installation).
However, now that i got to having to install my kernel (emerge gentoo-sources) it claims that the packadge is masked (with masked by: missing keyword).
The only other emerge actions have been, emerge --rsync (I know it's bad Chi, but i did this both when sceduled, and after first getting the masked message, to ensure i got it right), and emerge --oneshot portage (getting the newest portage according to the instructions.
This is the output of my /etc/make.conf

 
# I Didn't mess around with this
CFLAGS="-02 -march=i686 -pipe"
# Or this
CXXFLAGS="-02 -march=i686 -pipe"
# Nor this
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
# I manualle put this in
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
# And this
USE="-kde gnome alsa"

I used the desktop profile originally, but changed to default trying to fix this myself.

emerge --update world

Say nothing is outdated

Also, when i

emerge -s kernel

, every single packadge is marked as masked. This confirms to me it is a global problem. (global as in my entire system - Do you say that in English?)




Comradly, DingoBoy.

[gruven]

It sounds like it is definitely a profile problem, since you said you changed it.

I would go over that section of the handbook again and make sure you are using the correct profile.

Post the output of:

ls -FGg /etc/make.profile

and if it isn't what you want, then you want to do this:

ln -snf /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 /etc/make.profile

That will get you back to the default profile, and everything should be better.

[DingoBoy]

It sounds like it is definitely a profile problem, since you said you changed it.

I would go over that section of the handbook again and make sure you are using the correct profile.

Post the output of:

ls -FGg /etc/make.profile

and if it isn't what you want, then you want to do this:

ln -snf /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 /etc/make.profile

That will get you back to the default profile, and everything should be better.

That did it! I choose /usr/portage/profiles/default instead of the full path. Must have misread that section.
Thanks for the helping, much appritiated.

Comradly, DingoBoy.