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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to tell 2.1.8 > 20030601
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:31:41
Message-Id: 20050823062806.GF10816@nightcrawler
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] How to tell 2.1.8 > 20030601 by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:23:24AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I have written an ebuild for pam_krb5, based on the version found in fedora,
5 > since the one from sourceforge which is currently in portage is way
6 > outdated.
7 >
8 > However, even after reading all the ebuild docs, I can't figure out how to
9 > tell portage that version 2.1.8 is newer than 20030601. The only way I
10 > could convince portage to replace pam_krb5-20030601-r1 with pam_krb5-2.1.8
11 > was to mask the former.
12 There's no way for portage to know that 20030601 is newer then 2.1.8,
13 without knowing when 2.1.8 was released (that metadata ain't going to
14 be jammed in either)
15 So...
16 boned. :)
17 ~harring