From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:55:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E62D1C.6090300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E62AB2.3090509@asyr.hopto.org>
On 27/01/2014 11:45, Thanasis wrote:
> 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
Yes, I saw that when he posted. It's a neat feature, pity I'd never
spotted it myself before (would have saved me a lot of pain)
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-27 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-26 22:12 [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ? Thanasis
2014-01-26 22:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-27 9:45 ` Thanasis
2014-01-27 9:55 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2014-01-27 1:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-27 9:40 ` [gentoo-user] keyword a whole overlay as ~arch [SOLVED] Thanasis
2014-02-15 4:00 ` [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ? Michael Higgins
2014-02-15 9:32 ` Neil Bothwick
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