Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?

[Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>]

on 01/27/2014 12:38 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
> On 27/01/2014 00:12, Thanasis wrote:
>> I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64").
>> In order to install the "mate" desktop I need to install the mate
>> overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64.
>> Is there a way to do it easily for the whole overlay?
> 
> As far as I'm aware, this is not part of portage or layman's feature
> set. I've seen a few overlays that provide a package.accept_keywords
> file you can symlink to, but this is just a convenience. It is neither
> required nor the norm.
> 
> I suggest you script it somehow. Alan's blunt instrument first cut
> attempt (guaranteed to be buggy as all hell):
> 
> find /var/lib/layman/<some_overlay>/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d
> -wholename "*-*/*" | cut -f6-7 -d/ >>
> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/<some_overlay>
> 
> 

Thanks Alan, although obviously I should adopt Michael's inherent to
portage solution:

*/*::overlay-name ~amd64