On August 6, 2012 06:51:41 AM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > What is meant with "please convert /etc/portage/package.keywords to a > directory" What will happen to the contents of that file? What is the name > of the directory to create? How can I fix that? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > Best regards, > mcc
package.keywords can be a directory instead of a file, in which case the "file" that ends up getting used is the concatenation of all of the files in the directory. It lets you split your keywords up rather than having one large monolithic file. In my case: $ ll /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/ total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4314 Apr 22 12:42 eclipse-3.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 khumba khumba 8739 Aug 1 23:56 kde-4.9.keywords.2012-08-01 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3999 Aug 2 23:11 mine The KDE file for example is provided on the Gentoo KDE page for unmasking all of the files necessary for KDE 4.9, and you don't have to merge it into your personal keywords file. You have to be careful not to leave any xxx~ backup files in the directory, because they count as well. The same applies to package.use. The new style is for the file/directory to be called package.accept_keywords. There's more info in "man 5 portage". Cheers, Bryan
