[gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I cheat and just do this:

> x11-wm/enlightenment * ~* **
Does not work for xz-utils. Neil's post may be the reason,
but there is definately nothing I've read (in man pages)
to distinguish these anomalous cases....?


> But enlightenment is a special case. e17 has never had a release (snapshots 
> that are known to build are not considered releases) and the majority of users 
> simply check out and build the latest commits in svn. The way the ebuilds are 
> versioned, enlightenment-9999 gets you the latest in svn.

> That's a pretty normal gentoo convention


> You need to put a mask after the package name - *, ~* or **. The default is to 
> use your current ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.


> * removes masking keywords if the package is stable on your arch
> ~* removes masking keywords if the package is stable on any arch
> ** removes masking keywords for the package unconditionally


none of these worked for the 
xz-utils package. Can we find a simple example that does work?
(not enlightenment).....?


James