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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:12 am Post subject: CF5 in FAQ forum needs update ASAP |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-33534.html
Recommends / gives example of emerging ~arch packages via ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line. That is utterly wrong and runs a good chance of borking the user's system in time. Can we please have it updated to refer to package.keywords?
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:48 am Post subject: Re: CF5 in FAQ forum needs update ASAP |
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| moocha wrote: | http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-33534.html
Recommends / gives example of emerging ~arch packages via ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line. That is utterly wrong and runs a good chance of borking the user's system in time. |
It didn't give that example - notice the -p for --pretend in it which is still working and useful.
| Quote: | | Can we please have it updated to refer to package.keywords? |
The paragraph below already had it. However, I see that all the historic context in this faq might lead to confusion and the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS command line example might make people think of using it without --pretend. In short, I added the Please don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line to actually emerge packages, use the files in /etc/portage instead: sentence. |
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moocha
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I thought that it was still misleading with -p as used on the command line like that the newly pulled in deps would also be ~arch in -p and possibly arch when actually merged.
Thanks for updating it! 
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You are always free to volunteer an update to this or any other FAQ.
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| kallamej wrote: | | You are always free to volunteer an update to this or any other FAQ. |
I was hoping nobody would point that out and it'd quietly slip by, as I'm suffering from a rather advanced case of lazyness at the moment - and you know how much programmers love writing documentation... *cough* 
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| moocha wrote: |
I was hoping nobody would point that out and it'd quietly slip by, as I'm suffering from a rather advanced case of lazyness at the moment - and you know how much programmers love writing documentation... *cough* |
lol.. I love the honesty. Here's the deal though, we're just as lazy as you, so pointing things like this out is almost always our first course of action.
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Well, I'll be reinstalling my playground system over the weekend and I won't be doing much work during that time anyway, so I might just go through the FAQ forum and clean things out instead of my usual sitting around search_id=unanswered.
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I've looked over it and hopefully improved it. Please let me know if there's anything else to correct / add.
Navigation: [Gentoo Fundamentals] [Table of Contents]
GF5: What are masked packages?
Packages that will not be installed on your system unless you take specific actions. A package may be masked by placing an entry in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Historically, this was the only way to mask packages. Note that /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask is overwritten by "emerge sync" as all files in /usr/portage, so manual changes to this file will not persist across a sync. Modern versions of portage allow the user to mask a package just like it can be masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask by the developers by adding an entry to /etc/portage/package.mask.
The newer way to mask packages is to declare KEYWORDS in the ebuild file. For each architecture (x86, ppc, sparc, sparc64, alpha), an ebuild may be marked '-arch', meaning "does not work", '~arch', meaning "unstable", or 'arch', meaning "stable". You can set your level of tolerance for unstable ebuilds by defining ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf - for example, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" will accept unstable packages on the x86 architecture. By default, your profile is set to accept stable packages only. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS can also be set on the command line. For example, | Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv unstablepackage |
Make sure not to put spaces around the '='. Please don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line to actually emerge packages as this might seriously confuse portage about your settings for ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
As described in the portage man page, as of Portage 2.0.50, you can make an entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords to have per-package keyword acceptance. This would look like: | Code: | | category/package ~arch |
or even more simple just without ~arch.
If you are generally accepting ~arch in your make.conf, and want to make an exception for a particular package, so that only arch packages are considered, the syntax is a bit obscure: | Code: | | category/package -~arch arch |
To get an overview of what versions of a package are available, you can use the "etcat" command, which is included in the gentoolkit package. For example:
Credits: TRauMa suggested the sample command line override and the etcat paragraph.
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etcat's gone to the great /dev/null in the sky for whatever odd reason. it's still available in a /depreciated directory in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-ver but i doubt that'll last past the next update. 
otherwise very nice work.
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First qpkg, then etcat. And I'll bet equery still sucks. 
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Earthwings
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I changed the titles to GF5: What are KEYWORDS / masked packages? resp. GF23: Hard masked Packages to avoid confusion for the hundreds of threads we moved to dups referencing "GF5: masked packages". After all, people as well as portage still call testing packages "masked" on stable systems.
We might want to add sime lines for "-*" and "missing keyword" problems.
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| Earthwings wrote: | | After all, people as well as portage still call testing packages "masked" on stable systems. |
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