* Re: Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy)
@ 2014-01-19 9:48 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2014-01-19 9:48 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sunday 19 January 2014 04:28:33 Pacho Ramos wrote:
> 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"
>
> I had no idea that existed :O, I guess something related with
> "specification" is missing? :/
specs are for chumps! although PMS documents -* already, so * and ~* is a
logical extension. i suspect on the portage side the history is related to
package.keywords support. but i'm just guessing.
-mike
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