On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 11:11:18 Damian wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to >> mask the package? >> >> The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I >> cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using >> ~x86 even though my system is amd64? > > The ebuild has this: > > $ grep KEYWORDS amarok-2.0.1.1.ebuild > KEYWORDS="~x86" > > So it's not even tested on amd64. The answer is in 'man portage': Thanks Alan.
Best, Damian. > > > Note: > In addition to the normal values from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS package.key- > words supports three special tokens: > > * package is visible if it is stable on any architecture > ~* package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture > ** package is always visible (KEYWORDS are ignored completely) > > > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
