On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:45, Duncan wrote:
> Luke-Jr posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below,
>
> on Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:41:33 +0000:
> > on PPC...
> >
> > mkdir -p /etc/portage
> > for d in /usr/portage/kde-base/*; do
> > pkg="${d/\/usr\/portage\//}";
> > echo "${pkg} ~x86 x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords echo "${pkg}"
> >
> > >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
> >
> > done
> >
> > That should work on any arch, though it will make a technically invalid
> > package.keywords file. It will work perfectly fine, though. :)
>
> OK, that will /normally/ work fine, and might work fine on all current KDE
> 3.4.0 betas, but as you say, it's technically incorrect (because it's
> telling portage to treat your arch like x86, which it isn't, and that
> can cause "interesting" complications, see below), and it /will/ cause
> problems with some packages, which is why the technotes say don't do it.
Only packages that won't work on your platform.
>
> Here's the deal. Certain ebuilds conditionally build in or compile
> certain features based on the keywords.
Based on USE flags.
> One example I know of, altho it's keyworded amd64 so there'd be no reason to
> use package.keywords to hack things, is xorg.
Nope. It uses USE flags to determine what arch.
> Others would be both mplayer and xinelib.
Those are checking USE flags also...
> Even more commonly, amd64 specific patches are conditionally applied based
> on keywords.
s/keywords/USE flags
> If you tell portage to use x86 (in either form), these tests will be screwed
> up.
If portage is changing my USE flags based on package.keywords, then portage is
screwed up.
> Thus, what one /really/ should be doing before they go trying x86 (in
> either form) in the keywords is verifying that the ebuild doesn't have any
> of these specific tests in it, or at minimum, that if it does, they aren't
> serious issues (an example being the lib/lib64 issue, presently).
As far as I am aware, ebuilds are not supposed to go checking KEYWORDS
themselves.
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