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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 08:28 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Whenever an ebuild goes from say -r1 to -r2, that is just a revision of the |
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> ebuild, not the program itself, correct? If so, in most cases, you will get |
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> the exact same code generated, correct? If the first one works, what is the |
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> point of upgrading to the next revision to get the exact same code? |
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In addition to what ciaranm said, there are cases where the -r has to do with |
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the package version. The only cases I know off the top of my head are with |
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kernels. Most of the external patchsets (ck-sources, aa-sources, etc.) are |
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setup this way. |
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--Iggy |
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