Bug 436330 – allow extended '::overlay' syntax in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.force/mask

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2012-09-26 17:39:17 UTC]

I'm on hardened and like to use mingw32 crosscompiler, but
crossdev always rewrites masks for me like that:

$ cat /etc/portage/profile/package.use.force/cross-mingw32 
cross-mingw32/binutils -multilib
cross-mingw32/gcc -multilib
cross-mingw32/w32api -multilib
cross-mingw32/mingw-runtime -multilib
cross-mingw32/gdb -multilib

(it does not disable USE=hardened and build fails)

I'd like to have the following thing for example (i plan to install
a lot of crosscompilers):

$ cat /etc/portage/profile/package.use.force/cross
*/*::cross-overlay -hardened

but it is not allowed by portage:

--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask: */*::cross-overlay
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.force: */*::cross-overlay

How about allowing extended syntax in /etc/portage/profile/*{force,mask}
and only (or not only?) there to avoid incompatibility creep into main tree

Thanks!

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2012-09-26 20:56:27 UTC]

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=7cf1e23b2debfa1a09c98d5cc6a795cc3e58ea95

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2012-09-27 22:11:23 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.11.23 and 2.2.0_alpha134.