KEYWORDS

In an ebuild [[Article description::the <var>KEYWORDS</var> variable informs in which architectures the ebuild is stable or still in testing phase.]]

Examples

The following example contains some possible values for the KEYWORDS variable:

FILE example.ebuild
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"</syntaxhighlight>

See the /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/arch.list for a list of keywords.

The prefix ~ (a tilde character) placed in front of various architectures in the example above means that architecture is in a "testing phase" and is not ready for production usage.

Special keywords

In addition to the normal KEYWORDS values Portage 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).

If you encounter the -* KEYWORD, this indicates that the package is known to be broken on all systems which are not otherwise listed in KEYWORDS. For example, a binary only package which is built for the x86 will look like:

user $equery meta fdftk
 * app-text/fdftk [gentoo]
Maintainer:  robbat2@gentoo.org
Maintainer:  tex@gentoo.org (Gentoo TeX Project)
Upstream:    None specified
Homepage:    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/fdftoolkit.html
Location:    /var/portage/repos/gentoo/app-text/fdftk
Keywords:    6.0-r1:0: x86 -*
License:     Adobe

If you wish to accept this package anyways, then use one of the other keywords in the package.accept_keywords like this:

FILE /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
app-text/fdftk amd64

For detailed information see the portage(5) man page.

See also

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