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On 2002.10.21 10:56 Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> Pursuant to the recently announced news item, (and many of you |
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> probably |
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> already know), we have ~arch KEYWORDS in many ebuilds. The purpose of |
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> this is to allow a stable "profile" for each architecture, without |
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> letting |
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> package versions go ridiculously out of date. So, basically, new |
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> packages |
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> will (once the freeze is lifted) and updated versions of current |
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> packages |
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> (with the exception of critical and security updates) will get tagged |
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> with |
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> ~arch for the architectures upon which they were previously marked. |
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> For those of you who are adventurous (yes fans of bleeding edge, I |
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> know |
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> you're there, I can see you), please put: |
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> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" |
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> (substitute arch for x86, ppc, sparc, sparc64 or alpha, depending on |
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> your |
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> hardware platform) and test away. Please report bugs etc so we can |
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> have a |
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> relatively updated stable profile too :) |
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So let me get this straight. Pacakge masking (and unmasking to test) |
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will be a thing of the past? If one uses that ~arch line, will one |
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have the latest packages available? |
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I am just curious as I have unmasked a heap of Gnome 2 apps and this |
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would make my life easier ;) |
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Thanks |
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