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Hi All, |
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Tonight, I started catching up on my near 15-day backlog of Gentoo |
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Linux-related mailing list postings, and started hitting lots of discussions |
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about extensions to the dependency system. This motivated me to add the |
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long-anticipated "*"-style dependency to Portage, and create a new Portage |
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release, 1.6.12. It is now on CVS. Here are how the new "*" dependencies |
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work: |
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Let's say you'd like a package to use the most recent 1.x version of freetype. |
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You can now specify the following dependency: |
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=media-libs/freetype-1* |
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Or, if you want the latest 1.2.x version of gtk+, use: |
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=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* |
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You should only use the new "*" deps with straight version numbers; i.e. no |
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_alpha, _beta, _pre, -rX, or trailing letters. They only really make sense for |
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straight x.y.z integer version formats anyways. We will continue to extend the |
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dependency syntax to keep up with the needs of developers. |
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I also added a new version of sys-apps/baselayout (1.6.5) to Portage. This new |
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release contains important fixes to the /etc/init.d/checkroot and |
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/etc/init.d/netmount scripts, as well as a couple of other minor improvements. |
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Enjoy! |
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-- |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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