"~amd64" in command line

gian · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 212 Location: Europe

I have someeimes used commands such as:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge SOMETHING

and recently dicovered that this habit is somewhat discouraged... I only emerged this way some non important packages and related dependencies (that I hope not being system crytical) but would like to convert to the more reasonable per package policy given by config files (package.keywords etc.).

Is there a simple way to find out wich of my packages have been emerged with the ~amd64 USE flag ? (so that I can put them in the /etc/portage/package.keywords file)

and, more in gneral, what do you think is the best policy for those that, like me, use in general a plain amd64 system except few ~amd64 packages ?

thank you

taurus · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject:

I guess if you run

gian · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 212 Location: Europe

.. if I do emerge -pvu world It does not seem to find quite a few packages... moreover, in most cases all packages I unmasked are packages that do not have a "stable" version (else I would just use the plain amd64 version), so that emerge -pvu world does not feel as necessary to downgrade anything (since there is no viable downgraded version)

gian · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 212 Location: Europe

the idea could be that of having something similar to "equery uses pkg" sounding like "equery keywords pkg" ... then one would have to submit all world packages to the command and grep all those that result in ~amd64.... is there a solution any of you know of ?

taurus · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject:

Or try

gian · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 212 Location: Europe

nope...

thats not enough either... if a package you have emerged exists only in ~amd64 then it will not show up for sure....

ok... second level question... where is this info stored ? (the fact that a pkg was emerged with a ~amd64 flag, that is).
If there is no utility to do this I might be tempted to try writing a script that does it...

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

I think you do have to write a script. I can't think of a file that would tell you such a thing. However, every package you currently have installed has an entry in /var/db/pkg. A copy of its ebuild is even stored in there. So your script can just go through all the ebuilds, find the ones that have a ~amd64 keyword, and those to your package.keywords file.
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UberLord · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:46 am Post subject:

RiverRat · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Colorado

try "revdep-rebuild".
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