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| -rw-r--r-- | man/portage.5 | 26 |
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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 66547521e..4b19dc909 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -384,13 +384,9 @@ Per\-package KEYWORDS. Useful for mixing unstable packages in with a normally stable system or vice versa. This will allow ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to be augmented for a single package. -.nf -\fINote:\fR There are two special KEYWORDS to help out here: -\fB*\fR Match any stable KEYWORD -\fB~*\fR Match any unstable KEYWORD - .I Format: -\- comments begin with # +.nf +\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments) \- one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional KEYWORDS \- lines without any KEYWORDS imply unstable host arch @@ -403,6 +399,17 @@ media\-video/mplayer \-~x86 net-analyzer/netcat .fi +.I Note: +.fi +In addition to the normal values from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS package.keywords supports +three special tokens: + +.nf +\fB*\fR package is visible if it is stable on any architecture +\fB~*\fR package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture +\fB**\fR package is always visible (KEYWORDS are ignored completely) +.fi + .I Additional Note: If you encounter the \fB-*\fR KEYWORD, this indicates that the package is known to be broken on all systems which are not otherwise listed in KEYWORDS. For @@ -410,10 +417,11 @@ example, a binary only package which is built for x86 will look like: games-fps/quake3-demo-1.11.ebuild:KEYWORDS="-* x86" -If you wish to accept this package anyways, then add \fB-*\fR to your +If you wish to accept this package anyways, then use one of the other keywords in your package.keywords like this: -games-fps/quake3-demo -* +games-fps/quake3-demo x86 + .TP .BR package.mask A list of package atoms to mask. Useful if specific versions of packages do @@ -422,7 +430,7 @@ versions earlier than 1.0.4496. No problem! .I Format: .nf -\- comments begin with # +\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments) \- one DEPEND atom per line .fi |