Package.Keywords Management [SOLVED]

[HeXiLeD]

Q:

Is there an easy way to auto manage or have any sort of information about obsolete added to /etc/portage/package.keywords ?

For example those like me who prefer to run only a "stable" package built OS but occasionally have to add some needed package to package.keywords.

example:

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=media-sound/linuxsampler-0.4.0 ~amd64
=media-libs/liblscp-0.3.3 ~amd64
=media-libs/libgig-3.1.1 ~amd64
=media-sound/djplay-0.5.0 ~amd64
=media-libs/libdjconsole-0.1.2 ~amd64
=net-im/silc-plugin-1.1.2-r1 ~amd64
=net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.53-r1 ~amd64
=app-cdr/isomaster-1.3.3 ~amd64

by adding = behind the package name, portage will ensure that the update will only be done up to that "unstable" package allowing future package stable upgrades to be performed.

However the only way we have to confirm in time if the latest update is now marked "stable" is by performing emerge -s <package> or -pv <package> and then manually remove it from package.keywords.

This is not an "issue" but in time package.keywords will grow and we lose track of what is now stable ot not.

I know that a while ago there was some method to facilitate the verification and possible removal of outdated entries from package.keywords; but i lost track of it.

Anyone has a good method to deal with this situation ?

[forkboy]

I use app-portage/portpeek

[mv]

eix-test-obsolete

[HeXiLeD]

Simply loved this one:

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*  app-portage/portpeek
      Latest version available: 1.5.7.2
      Latest version installed: 1.5.7.2
      Size of files: 6 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?page_id=3
      Description:   A helper program for maintaining the package.keyword and package.unmask files
      License:       GPL-2

# portpeek -h

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Usage: portpeek command
       portpeek [ options ] command
       portpeek [-c] [akmu]
       portpeek [-r] [akmu]
       portpeek [-f] [akmu]
       portpeek [-F] [akmu]
 command  can be
 -a, --all              - show all matches
 -k, --keyword          - show matches from package.keyword only
 -m, --mask             - show matches from package.mask only
 -u, --unmask           - show matched from package.unmask only
 -f, --fix              - will remove the stabled packages without asking for confirmation
 -h, --help             - display this message
 -d, --debug            - display more verbose output for debugging
 -V, --version          - display version info
options are
 -c, --changes-only     - show all matches that have upgrade option, use with < k | u | m | a >
 -r, --removable-only   - show all matches that can be removed from package files, use with < k | u | m | a >

Problem is [SOLVED]