Archive for December, 2007

Gentoo: Rebuilding package.keywords

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

We all mess up in the shell once in a while. Sometimes, while trying to cut corners, we’ll use “>” instead of “>>”, and that will overwrite an important file instead of appending a new line to it.

I was trying to add an unstable keyword to a package in Gentoo, and did just that — I overwrote /etc/portage/package.keywords, and now I can’t for the life of me remember what was in there, apart from Wordpress.

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