[gentoo-user] switching arch from stable to testing?

[gentoo-user] switching arch from stable to testing?

[Roy Wright]

Howdy,

My originally stable (x86) system has a lot of testing packages (via 
package.keywords)
and I'm looking to switch to a pure testing system.  I thought all that 
was necessary
was to change x86 to ~x86 in make.conf's USE variable.  No joy.  emerge 
--info still
shows stable x86.  I'm an hour into googling, reading the gentoo 
handbook, still no
joy.  Any ideas?

TIA,
Roy
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Re: [gentoo-user] switching arch from stable to testing?

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:07, Roy Wright wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> My originally stable (x86) system has a lot of testing packages (via
> package.keywords)
> and I'm looking to switch to a pure testing system.  I thought all that
> was necessary
> was to change x86 to ~x86 in make.conf's USE variable.  No joy.  emerge
> --info still
> shows stable x86.  I'm an hour into googling, reading the gentoo
> handbook, still no
> joy.  Any ideas?
>

not use!
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS!
and after that:
env-update
source /etc/profile
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Re: [gentoo-user] switching arch from stable to testing?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 30 May 2006 19:07:19 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:

> My originally stable (x86) system has a lot of testing packages (via 
> package.keywords)
> and I'm looking to switch to a pure testing system.  I thought all that 
> was necessary
> was to change x86 to ~x86 in make.conf's USE variable.  No joy.  emerge 
> --info still
> shows stable x86.

Set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in make.conf. Do not set x86 or ~x86 in
make.conf's USE.


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Re: [gentoo-user] switching arch from stable to testing?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:25 skrev Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> and after that:
> env-update
> source /etc/profile

env-update update is for global environment changes which are made 
in /etc/env.d/*. It has got nothing to do with /etc/make.conf. All he has to 
do is add the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to /etc/make.conf.

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Re: [gentoo-user] switching arch from stable to testing?

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:47, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:25 skrev Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> > and after that:
> > env-update
> > source /etc/profile
>
> env-update update is for global environment changes which are made
> in /etc/env.d/*. It has got nothing to do with /etc/make.conf. All he has
> to do is add the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to /etc/make.conf.

good to know.

I always do env-update after changes to /etc, just to be sure, that I don't 
forget it, once it is really needed.;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] switching arch from stable to testing?

[Roy Wright]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in make.conf. Do not set x86 or ~x86 in
> make.conf's USE.
>
>   
Thank you everyone!  That and some fiddling with package.mask/unmask got the
ball rolling.

Have fun,
Roy

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