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 1MJ8G5-0007sq-Se for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:50:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15999E05E8; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83D0E05E8 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2AB65F96 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:50:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.964 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.964 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.635, 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 nkyJ-aMGTFw8 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:49:57 +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 06B16657D6 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MJ8Fr-0000eA-L0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:49:51 +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 15:49:51 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:49:51 +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 15:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200906222228.37453.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200906231705.05344.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: b8f9e2db-d1ff-46aa-a1b3-c8d7fb74bed7 X-Archives-Hash: e55e9d726b4c9328e8b608ae99bea9b1 Alan McKinnon 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