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| -rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/portage.5 | 10 |
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diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 0e1d29b0a..b36c40e70 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -652,6 +652,14 @@ variable to allow or disallow the emerging of a package masked by versions of packages, you should update your \fI/etc/portage/package.keywords\fR file to list the packages you want the \'testing\' version. See \fBportage\fR(5) for more information. +.TP +.BR LICENSE +The \fBLICENSE\fR variable in an \fBebuild\fR file can be used to mask +packages based on licensing restrictions. \fBemerge\fR examines the +\fBACCEPT_LICENSE\fR environment variable to allow or disallow the emerging +of a package masked by \fBLICENSE\fR. See \fBmake.conf\fR(5) for information +about \fBACCEPT_LICENSE\fR, and see \fBportage\fR(5) for information about +\fI/etc/portage/package.license\fR. .SH "CONFIGURATION FILES" Portage has a special feature called "config file protection". The purpose of this feature is to prevent new package installs from clobbering existing diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index 229e50b3f..0283f4f0f 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ set this to '~ppc'. This is an incremental variable. Only define a .br Defaults to the value of $ARCH. .TP +\fBACCEPT_LICENSE\fR = \fI[space delimited list of licenses or groups]\fR +This variable is used to mask packages based on licensing restrictions. +.br +Defaults to the value of * -@EULA. +.TP .B CBUILD This variable is passed by the \fIebuild scripts\fR to the \fIconfigure\fR as \fI\-\-build=${CBUILD}\fR only if it is defined. Do not set this yourself diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 9ce5b5552..3d447a869 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ color.map mirrors modules package.keywords +package.license package.mask package.unmask package.use @@ -513,6 +514,15 @@ package.keywords like this: games-fps/quake3-demo x86 .TP +.BR package.license +This will allow ACCEPT_LICENSE to be augmented for a single package. + +.I Format: +.nf +\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments) +\- one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional licenses or groups +.fi +.TP .BR package.mask A list of package atoms to mask. Useful if specific versions of packages do not work well for you. For example, you swear by the Nvidia drivers, but only |