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On Friday 23 January 2009 11:11:18 Damian wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to |
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> mask the package? |
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> The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I |
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> cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using |
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> ~x86 even though my system is amd64? |
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The ebuild has this: |
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$ grep KEYWORDS amarok-2.0.1.1.ebuild |
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KEYWORDS="~x86" |
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So it's not even tested on amd64. The answer is in 'man portage': |
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Note: |
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In addition to the normal values from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS package.key- |
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words supports three special tokens: |
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* package is visible if it is stable on any architecture |
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~* package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture |
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** package is always visible (KEYWORDS are ignored completely) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |