Bug 5289

Summary:	Status of Ebuilds/ports would be nice
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	K.J. Wolf <kjwolf>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	karltk, mguertin, owen
Priority:	High
Version:	1.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description K.J. Wolf 2002-07-19 21:51:34 UTC

It would be nice if there'd be a variable like "DEVELOPMENT_STATUS" in the
ebuild files so one could e.g. specify a certain level of stability for
production vs. testing machines which newly installed ports shouldn't fall below.

For some reason, it might be useful to have beta and unstable software present
(for the daring users), while installed packages would be stable by default (two
different branches in the same port).

Furthermore, sometimes it's difficult to determine the actual of status when
reading the ebuild file - there is no documentation about that yet. It's only
the port's maintainer's decision what version is stable enough to be set free
into everybodies' systems.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-09 13:34:35 UTC

We now have KEYWORDS functionality for this. To get experimental packages, add
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (for x86 systems) to /etc/make.conf.