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Bug 112736

Summary: skel.ebuild has a minor mistake - lists ~x86 etc as stable
Product: [OLD] Docs-developer Reporter: Lasse Bigum <lasse>
Component: Developers HOWTOAssignee: Gentoo Community Relations Team <comrel>
Status: VERIFIED INVALID    
Severity: trivial    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Lasse Bigum 2005-11-16 12:23:26 UTC
Quote from /usr/port/skel.ebuild:

# The ~ in front of the architecture indicates that the package is new and 
# should be considered unstable until testing proves its stability.  Once 
# packages go stable the ~ prefix is removed.  So, if you've confirmed that 
# your ebuild works on x86 and ppc, you'd specify: KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc"

I would *think* that it should be 'KEYWORDS="x86 ppc"' instead?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2005-11-16 12:26:52 UTC
no ... the comment is explaining what the ~ means and then offhandedly
mentions how it move into stable

since you're making a new ebuild, the KEYWORDS should always start
in unstable
Comment 2 Lasse Bigum 2005-11-16 13:36:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> no ... the comment is explaining what the ~ means and then offhandedly
> mentions how it move into stable

Arh, I get that now, but I just found it ambiguous. What about swapping the last 
two sentences then? First explaining what ~ means, and what the KEYWORDS should 
be, before finally mentioning when to remove ~ ?

A suggestion anyways.

> since you're making a new ebuild, the KEYWORDS should always start
> in unstable

I understood that much ;-)
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2005-12-04 15:50:46 UTC
tweaked as suggested, thanks