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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-05-03 19:21:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-05-07 00:06:49 +0200 |
| commit | 6872325358f1b9f30273a50e22dabbbfc6ea8034 (patch) | |
| tree | 56b9f878ccfa32f3dff6dbd33b3907814e05ec0f /profiles | |
| parent | Merge section about user-submitted ebuilds from Developer Handbook. (diff) | |
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Merge package.mask policy from Developer Handbook.
This is taken from proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-ebuild.xml,
section "QA policy", subsection "Masked packages".
Permission to reuse the CC-BY-SA-1.0 work under CC-BY-SA-2.0
(or any later version) obtained from author plasmaroo per e-mail
on 2015-04-16.
Diffstat (limited to 'profiles')
| -rw-r--r-- | profiles/package.mask/text.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask/text.xml b/profiles/package.mask/text.xml index ef57b28..6cef26d 100644 --- a/profiles/package.mask/text.xml +++ b/profiles/package.mask/text.xml @@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ <body> <p> -The <c>package.mask</c> file can be used to hard mask packages or certain versions -of packages. This is often used when adding certain experimental (either in -ebuild or upstream terms) packages to the tree. The format is described in -<c>man portage</c>. +The <c>package.mask</c> file can be used to hard mask packages or +certain versions of packages that should not be merged by users. +This is often used when adding certain experimental (either in ebuild +or upstream terms) packages to the tree, or to prevent merging of +packages that are broken or break something else. Every entry should +have a comment detailing the specific reason for the mask. The format +of the <c>package.mask</c> file is described in <c>man portage</c>. </p> <p> |