From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF81138247 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F860E0C1C; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 750B5E0C18 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (182.Red-2-137-18.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [2.137.18.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pacho) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A28433F943 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1390123713.24148.121.camel@belkin5> Subject: Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy) From: Pacho Ramos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:28:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <201401190336.10465.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <20140114213719.GA2684@laptop.home> <201401190336.10465.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: e3e6353b-cdf1-4f41-adc4-a54148ec1334 X-Archives-Hash: db82025b3b435c94526ca3f32f3f7950 El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 03:36 -0500, Mike Frysinger escribió: > On Friday 17 January 2014 02:02:51 grozin@gentoo.org wrote: > > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such > > packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is > > ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for > > stable. The maintainer should be able to keyword ~noarch and to stabilize > > noarch. Comments? > > you mean * ? this already works today (at least with portage): > KEYWORDS="~*" > KEYWORDS="*" > > in fact, i was planning on converting Chromium OS over to use this instead of > a list of arches. but that's because we run a simpler system of there really > only being two sets of ebuilds in the tree -- stable for all and unstable for > all. > > for the ebuilds that are truly arch-specific (or otherwise need restricting), > then we'll do: > KEYWORDS="-* ~arm" > -mike I had no idea that existed :O, I guess something related with "specification" is missing? :/