Re: [gentoo-alt] About KEYWORDS in the prefix tree

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:41:09 +0000, Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:18 -0600, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>> All -
>> Heads up. Historically, the prefix tree contained *only* ebuilds that
>> were tested to work. As such, they had "prefix" style keywords.
>> (~amd64-linux, ~ppc-macos, etc). Going forward, our tree will be having

>> more and more ebuilds that have not been tested to work with prefix.
>> That is, no prefix keywords but maybe ~amd64, ppc, etc. You cannot set
>> your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to "amd64" and expect an unchecked ebuild to just
>> work for prefix.
>>
>> I've seen more than one person on IRC ask about this, a guaranteed way
>> to set yourself up for failure. If an ebuild is missing your *prefix*
>> keyword, then it needs to be fixed and file a bug for the working
>> package. (We do not have the manpower/motivation to fix all the
packages 
>> ourselves)
>>
>> Here is some help:
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/techdocs.xml
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ecopy.xml
>>
>> Please ask if you need help with something.
>
> Just a question on this.
>
> Are we going to see portage merged in with mainline ?

Are you talking about prefix-portage (the package) or portage (the tree)?
If the latter, its already being done (what this email is about) and you
as
a prefix and gentoo linux user haven't noticed so I guess it is pretty
transparent. ;)
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/whitelist.txt

If you are talking about the package, then it is being worked on. No ETA.

>
> And if so, how is a prefix defined differently from normal usage ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan.