Bug 280099

Summary:	ability to use category-based entries in /etc/portage/package.*
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) <darkside>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	esigra
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	335925

Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-08-02 20:33:28 UTC

It would greatly ease my maintainer-ship of ebuilds if I had the ability to do something like "xfce-base/* ~amd64" in package.keywords. This would eliminate one step of my process.

Alternatively, it was suggested to use @set syntax in package.keywords (which requires bug 244366 to be implemented) because you can make a set per category with something like:

15:12 < Arfrever> darkside_: FYI, the following code can be used to generate 
                  set for each category:
15:12 < Arfrever> [categories]
15:12 < Arfrever> class = portage.sets.dbapi.CategorySet
15:12 < Arfrever> multiset = true
15:12 < Arfrever> name_pattern = ${category}

However, I still think the original proposal would be more convenient from the user POV too. Please consider.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-07-23 19:57:54 UTC

This is in git now, in these 2 commits and everything in between:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=4f18b95298423b28691f43911632d5d34f69fc84
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=29825ae82a3a7c51be0b3312e74c9cb0288abbaa

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-09-22 04:14:11 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.9.