Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:29:39 Andrey Vul wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Ricardo Saffi Marques
>
> <saffi@las.ic.unicamp.br> wrote:
> > Andrey Vul wrote:
> >> That looks like it'll only work in paludis. You're going to have to
> >> use shell scripting and output a BFList to package.keywords .
> >> Try $eix -C kde-base --only-names | sed -r 's/$/ -~amd64/' | sudo tee
> >> -a /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >
> > Don't you guys like (or maybe even know) "autounmask"?
>
> You're giving the exact opposite of what was requested in the question.
> The relevant part of the question was "Is it possible to *revoke* [the
> ~amd64 for kde]"
>
> If it was *unmasking*, then yes, I would have mentioned autounmask.
> But the OP asked about revoking (unmasks), not unmasking.
> If you want to make an automask script that does the work for you, go
> ahead.

Run autounmask, it creates a new file in /etc/portage/package.unmask/

Run a quick awk on it to get it into shape

Move file to /etc/portage/package.mask/

Problem solved in a neat elegant insightful way.

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