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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:28:44
Message-Id: 1390123713.24148.121.camel@belkin5
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy by Mike Frysinger
1 El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 03:36 -0500, Mike Frysinger escribió:
2 > On Friday 17 January 2014 02:02:51 grozin@g.o wrote:
3 > > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such
4 > > packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is
5 > > ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for
6 > > stable. The maintainer should be able to keyword ~noarch and to stabilize
7 > > noarch. Comments?
8 >
9 > you mean * ? this already works today (at least with portage):
10 > KEYWORDS="~*"
11 > KEYWORDS="*"
12 >
13 > in fact, i was planning on converting Chromium OS over to use this instead of
14 > a list of arches. but that's because we run a simpler system of there really
15 > only being two sets of ebuilds in the tree -- stable for all and unstable for
16 > all.
17 >
18 > for the ebuilds that are truly arch-specific (or otherwise need restricting),
19 > then we'll do:
20 > KEYWORDS="-* ~arm"
21 > -mike
22
23 I had no idea that existed :O, I guess something related with
24 "specification" is missing? :/

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