Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

[Dale]

Gian Calgeer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was really looking forward to the new autounmask feature in portage,
> as it replaces my ugly home-grown bash script. However, it just picks
> a seemingly random file in /etc/portage/package.keywords to put things
> into. Is there a way to specify which file it writes things into?
> Ideally, I would like to have file names based on the package I'm
> emerging, so if e.g. I do "emerge --autounmask-write=y
> dev-ruby/rest-client", it should put the keywords into
> /etc/portage/package.keywords/dev-ruby-rest-client or similar.
> Alternatively, it would be great if I could at least get portage to
> output the keywords to stdout without mixing it up with other output,
> so I could redirect it to a file I want. Is there any way to do this?
>
> Gian
>
>

I was using autounmask to do this and it does just like you want.  
However, the last time I used autounmask, it was different.  You may 
want to try that tho to see if it helps in some way.

The feature with emerge picks the first file I think in the directory.  
It is annoying as heck for sure.  Since it is a work in progress, maybe 
they will change this weird behavior soon.

Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too.  Jeez.

Dale

:-)  :-)