when a package is masked against a relative arch it would have the relevant
arch (for example amd64).... the two asteriks serves when a package is not
masked against an arch and even if it's in the stable branch it won't
install unless you'll unmask it with the two asteriks.... another example of
such a package is the knetworkmanager package from xeffects overlay: it has
no arch in the ebuild so it is masked by default.... to build it you have to
unmask it with the two asteriks in the package.keywords file....

2007/6/24, Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de>:
>
> Am Sonntag 24 Juni 2007 22:00 schrieb Mike Doty:
> > Florian Philipp wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag 24 Juni 2007 21:38 schrieb Christoph Mende:
> > >> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:23:20 +0200
> > >>
> > >> Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de> wrote:
> > >>> It's the onboard  USB-WLAN-adapter on my ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe
> > >>> mainboard. A native driver exists (  net-wireless/rtl8187 ) but it
> is
> > >>> hardmasked.
> > >>
> > >> It's not. Put net-wireless/rtl8187 ** in /etc/potage/package.keywords
> > >> and emerge it.
> > >
> > > echo "net-wireless/rtl8187" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords;
> >
> > you missed the "**"
> >
> > --
>
> What's the purpose of those asterisks? I've never seen them before.
>
>


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