67046 – would like to see regular expressions accepted in package.keywords

Bug 67046 - would like to see regular expressions accepted in package.keywords

Summary: would like to see regular expressions accepted in package.keywords

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47192

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-10-10 22:04 UTC by Thomas Frohe
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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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 ***