From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45D311381F3 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA8C9E091F; Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F32CE089D for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A48E767DD8 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2020 20:59:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 20:59:30 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask Message-ID: <20200418205930.7b458c30@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20200418175619.yjupjgtmdvi7ahej@solfire> References: <20200418175619.yjupjgtmdvi7ahej@solfire> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.5 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/S6VHz5HtLSAE2pUkn5QZwHk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: f64b4650-dc54-4d11-81a6-a954fd1ece81 X-Archives-Hash: 0d5fd6ac7342e215b9006b469ce8beb7 --Sig_/S6VHz5HtLSAE2pUkn5QZwHk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:56:19 +0200, tuxic@posteo.de wrote: > I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it > in this manner works as exspected. > Also the docs are of that opinion, too: Are they> From man portage: /etc/portage/ Files in this directory including make.conf, repos.conf, and any file with a name that begins with "package." can be more than just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together as if it were a single file. --=20 Neil Bothwick If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. --Sig_/S6VHz5HtLSAE2pUkn5QZwHk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAl6bXCIACgkQ92eFu0QS MJhNFw/+MiMhErFgjndEm+Mn5I0kLowq6gS98q2m9nsfYTOiR5O4sv8XmDXZrFVa CRWRLhYAZIEETTi58vSExf9k++lTWsm5PSdbgQAueqhF3enAPzSVothk80QyhBYh TXJd8UcdxxySiK6N1VPKQK6+qOoei8Bi6Gber7y1eNUT3q7zCM9Hum9RQADgPZ/R p8bkdesvpJBfgVrF3DlPwU+GP91RGDuolW7RH7GFYEwZpSeKkKeUf+W/9g0AnOwU lUaHSBMv8zuZPRTUvpO1Yck6sEd9EBIx8Rf3V1GGVNntjyvRubbBHMMdew/lIq/v /MxnK6eS60I6510XmOpILZl0KhH4ouEcljvUAcjkrXTMVoKGoPtIQ60mD9rV4fSK D7yIidJIvXxqNiRJpWmIigT8XLE+A1tdemW36RJ+TxcdoqLT/7LLnzcC2g2RIGNh XG5+OYCEJZXpspqCNZdp45y9FZZNKzsvr/recc5kzRDCWilFfy+355fjqPjpxEns CvwplrvmJTqcj8vGpLRWxryBpltTBGFXVvEIFU0XLJkgovOE/6ycB4aWernbgu8s paXWRFN4oqUFfZCOLEQRfVtKYOlI523+AfMA/KAixrOP5qlqMy2k3sikfKM+tD1C MZhI2EC62jMqzdinwIJjMMRsqDnTtwGmuY5VWEBv+pPDJo/XT7E= =Hr83 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/S6VHz5HtLSAE2pUkn5QZwHk--