447992 – extend profiles to handle wildcards for masks et al

Bug 447992 - extend profiles to handle wildcards for masks et al

Summary: extend profiles to handle wildcards for masks et al

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2012-12-20 19:57 UTC by Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos)
Modified:	2023-12-02 07:45 UTC (History)
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Description Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev

2012-12-20 19:57:36 UTC

I can't think of anything that would make me happier than being able to mask x11-drivers/ati-drivers-*_beta*.

Right now, I'm able to do that in /etc/portage, but not in my profile.

Can the profile specification be extended in some way to allow some sane wildcarding?

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-12-20 19:59:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Can the profile specification be extended in some way to allow some sane
> wildcarding?

We can add a new profile-formats setting for this, like we did for bug #414961.

Comment 2 Einstok Fair 2023-12-02 07:45:56 UTC

see also https://bugs.gentoo.org/918891