Janne Vänttinen wrote: > Is there any easier way to make Portage to install KDE 3.4.1 to a stable > system than to add every single installed package to > /etc/portage/package.keywords? I wouldn't mind to have the entire > kde-base -category use test packages but I would like to keep the rest > of the system on stable ground. So PACKAGE_KEYWORDS is not a good solution. > > I tried to define packages with wildcards (like kde-base/* ~x86), with > no luck. Is this possible? > > Thanks beforehand, >
AFAIK you need to use a separate line for each package. TrueDFX posted a script here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2432900.html#2432900 PKG="=kde-3.4*" # the package you want to unmask while [ -n "$(emerge -pv "$PKG" | awk '/~x86/ { print $2 }' | sed 's/-[0-9].*$//' | uniq | tee -a /etc/portage/package.keywords)" ] do : done Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list