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Bug 67046

Summary: would like to see regular expressions accepted in package.keywords
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Thomas Frohe <cyber.tf>
Component: Enhancement/Feature RequestsAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Thomas Frohe 2004-10-10 22:04:34 UTC
currently /etc/portage/package.keywords accepts <packagename> <keyword>

any attempt to use a wildcard or a regular expression fails with error

!!! string index out of range

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 michael@smith-li.com 2004-10-10 22:16:52 UTC
I'd like to add a "me too" to this feature request. It would be helpful if package.* accepted wildcards or regexp.
Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-10 22:38:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47192 ***