Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance on undocumented behaviour [WAS: Arches marking ebuilds stable before maintainer]

[Daniel]

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> > -* is the only way to add an ebuild for testing without forcing it on
> > ~arch users. i still have -* in keywords for the convenience of x86 users
> > who want to test and port x86 software to gcc 3.4 (and submit patches on
> > bugzilla) by simply adding "sys-devel/gcc -*" to package.keywords.
>
> Adding 'sys-devel/gcc -*' to package.keywords is *INCORRECT*. This is
> undocumented (and IMO broken) behaviour that cannot be relied upon.

man portage

it's there and documented.

> As
> foser said, "-* means broken on all arches by definition." Instead you
> should be encouraging the testers (and yourself) to copy the ebuild to your
> overlay and editing the KEYWORDS.

Ok sure.

>
> Same goes for any other undocumented behaviour of portage. Don't try
> something, find it works and then use it - especially not in ebuilds. Doing
> so only slows down the progress of enhancements to portage as all whole
> heap of ugly crappy annoying backwards compatibility code (for something
> that was unintentional, mind you) needs to be maintained.

Let us know what kind of stuff you want removed too.

>
> If you don't know how to do it, ask. If it's not yet available, ask louder.
>

bug #32114

> Regards,
> Jason Stubbs

Cheers,
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Daniel Black <dragonheart@g.o>
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