On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:12:33 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | From what I understand this is incorrect. package.mask, -*, and the | ~ARCH (and occasionally, -ARCH) keywords are supposed to indicate | the /ebuild/'s stability, not the upstream stability.
Not exactly. Top level package.mask means there's something wrong with the upstream package. Often this is because it's a beta release. It can also be used for major ebuild changes. Profile package.mask means a package that's usually OK on a particular architecture has to be masked on particular profiles. The canonical example is gcc on archs where 32/64 bit is handled via subprofiles. ~arch means a package is a candidate for going into arch after further testing, if said testing does not turn up new bugs. This means that both the ebuild *and* the package should be likely to be stable. No keyword means it's unknown whether a package will work on a particular arch, because no-one has tested it. -arch means a package will not work on a particular arch. -* means the package is in some way architecture or hardware independent (e.g. a binary only package), and so will only run on archs that are explicitly listed. Any package setting KEYWORDS="-*" and nothing else is abusing -*, and will flag a warning on the QA checkers. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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