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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