[Catalyst] GENTOO ebuilds: important change in keywords

Toby Corkindale toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au
Fri Oct 31 05:04:25 GMT 2008


Michele Beltrame wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> Gentoo overlays management made the following changes to the ebuilds
> in the perl-experimental overlay:
> 
> 1 - All ebuilds in dev-perl are now marked as unstable (~arch).
> 2 - All archs have been removed except for ~x86 and ~amd64
>  
> All packages in the overlays are not intended as stable, so they can't be
> marked as such. If you use amd64 or x86 you can unmask the ebuilds by adding
> them to /etc/package.keywords. Yes, they're a lot, so (unless you're using
> paludis instead of portage) you'll likely want to use autounmask.

Thanks for the heads-up.. What a PITA this is :(

Toby



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