From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJ7Bv-0006vp-97 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F29CE0357; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0636E0357 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711BE65380 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.962 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.962 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.637, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id b+Oylf22tSqw for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB956674E for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MJ7BK-0005ho-EZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:06 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:06 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:06 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200906222228.37453.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090505 SeaMonkey/1.1.16) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 30de53ec-5898-49b7-a738-2f61921862a4 X-Archives-Hash: 23d531a35ba125406244bec52b5db20c Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > This is my (mis)conception, although, as you have suggest, > > there are (gentoo) cultural norms that do suggest > > certain boolean operations should not be used, > > in say for example, package.keywords? > That's more just a safeguard against forgetting you put it there than anything > else Good to know. > The vast majority of cases will use only the "=" operator or nothing. That's > so you unmask the one version you are interested in, not everything from here > on out, including every buggy, pre-release and just plain broken version that > happens to have an ebuild. So entries in package.keywords should just have the ~ in front of them? No point in using other boolean operations in the package.keywords file? > The use-case for no operator is mostly for the case where you run say a stable > box, and want the latest of a specific well-known package. You might want the > latest Qt for example. Another example is -svn ebuilds - enlightenment is a > case in point. The snapshots are always out of date, latest svn is pretty > stable, so one must unmask everything to get the -9999 versions Ok, now you just tossed my little (pee brain) around quite significantly... Your saying that not operator will get me the -9999 (SVN) version of a package?And that this is most likely the most stable because the devs/hacks work on it often? If so then lets put it to the test. Maybee app-arch/xz-utils ? so my entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords should look like this: app-arch/xz-utils Nothing I tried in either package.keywords or package.unmask make the app-arch/xz-utils-9999 (SVN) version available. So what did I miss? James