Is there a way to unmask a whole group in /etc/portage/package.keywords?

For example:

x11-themes/*


instead of:

x11-themes/crystal
x11-themes/gentoo-artwork
x11-themes/gentoo-xcursors
x11-themes/gtk-chtheme
x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve
x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme
x11-themes/qtcurve
x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors
x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors
(...)

I'd like to do this for non-critical things like "media-fonts/*",
"x11-themes/*", "games-misc/*" and stuff like that.

On Thursday 3 July 2008 02:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Is there a way to unmask a whole group in /etc/portage/package.keywords?
>
> For example:
>
> x11-themes/*
>
>
> instead of:
>
> x11-themes/crystal
> x11-themes/gentoo-artwork
> x11-themes/gentoo-xcursors
> x11-themes/gtk-chtheme
> x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve
> x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme
> x11-themes/qtcurve
> x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors
> x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors
> (...)
>
> I'd like to do this for non-critical things like "media-fonts/*",
> "x11-themes/*", "games-misc/*" and stuff like that.

emerge autounmask

pk wrote:
> On Thursday 3 July 2008 02:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to unmask a whole group in /etc/portage/package.keywords?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> x11-themes/*
>> [...]
>
> emerge autounmask

Unfortunately, autounmask doesn't do what I want. It only unmasks
dependencies, not whole groups. What I want is unmask x11-themes/* and
then an `emerge -auvD world` should update everything in x11-themes to
~arch.

On Friday 4 July 2008 02:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> pk wrote:
>> On Thursday 3 July 2008 02:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to unmask a whole group in /etc/portage/package.keywords?
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> x11-themes/*
>>> [...]
>>
>> emerge autounmask
>
> Unfortunately, autounmask doesn't do what I want. It only unmasks
> dependencies, not whole groups. What I want is unmask x11-themes/* and
> then an `emerge -auvD world` should update everything in x11-themes to
> ~arch.

Then a quick and dirty script would probably do what you need (edit as
needed, of course):

CAT=x11-themes
find /usr/portage/$CAT -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf "$CAT/%f\n"

This generates a list of all the packages in the given category. Append
~ARCH at the end and redirect to >> /etc/portage/package.use, or just
redirect the list to >> /etc/portage/package.unmask, etc....

It may be possible to get a similar list using portageq or some other native
Gentoo utility (I haven't checked).

--
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nonstandard features. I try to mention when something is nonstandard (if
I'm aware of that), but I may miss something. Corrections are welcome.

On 2008-07-03, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> Is there a way to unmask a whole group in /etc/portage/package.keywords?
>
> For example:
>
> x11-themes/*
>
>
> instead of:
>
> x11-themes/crystal
> x11-themes/gentoo-artwork
> x11-themes/gentoo-xcursors
> x11-themes/gtk-chtheme
> x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve
> x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme
> x11-themes/qtcurve
> x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors
> x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors
> (...)
>
> I'd like to do this for non-critical things like "media-fonts/*",
> "x11-themes/*", "games-misc/*" and stuff like that.

I'm Paludis can do that without trouble. Its config files are (to
me at least) far saner. Indeed it does it in pretty much exactly your
example syntax, e.g. to allow unstable x86 builds in games-misc you'd
add this line to /etc/paludis/keywords.conf:

games-misc/* ~x86

But then of course you're stepping rather more into unsupported
territory...