Bug 187312 – simplify /etc/portage/package.keywords file

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140002
• Product: Portage Development

[Description David Carlos Manuelda 2007-08-01 00:16:04 UTC]

I have all kde packets in /etc/portage/package.keywords with <package_name> ~amd64 in order to have always latest version on portage installed, but this way is a bit dirty, the file is too long with too much names inside.

I suggest the implementation of some kinda wildcard in this system. This could improve and simplify the package.keywords file (and this does not hurt anyone I think).

For example, allowing things like:

kde-* ~amd64

What about this idea?

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2007-08-01 00:35:55 UTC]

I think this idea was proposed before, but I don't recall what the response was. Alternatively, you can do it this way:

mkdir /etc/portage/package.keywords
find /usr/portage -type d -name 'kde-*' | sed 's:^/usr/portage/::' > /etc/portage/package.keywords/kde

The above is untested, but it *should* work.

[Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2007-08-01 00:36:46 UTC]

Actually, you'd need something like:

find /usr/portage -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -name 'kde-*' | sed 's:^/usr/portage/::' >
/etc/portage/package.keywords/kde

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-08-01 07:17:29 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 140002 ***