Re: [gentoo-dev] profile: specific versions in virtuals

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:18 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> That happens creating a stage1 using catalyst.
> Any clue?

The best place for catalyst support is the gentoo-releng mailing list.
That is where the Release Engineering team all are and also all of the
arch coordinators.

> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:27:19PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 December 2004 21:16, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I decided to create a new profile for me, using my own virtuals. As I was
> > > creating mine, I liked to have a specific version of headers and sources in
> > > my virtuals definition.
> > > For specifying a version, I've to type a "=" in front of the ebuild, and
> > > add the version to it. So, I use:
> > > virtual/linux-sources   =sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.7
> > > virtual/os-headers      =sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4
> > >
> > > But having a = in the name makes portage to ignore the virtuals definition.
> > >
> > > Maybe that's a bug... maybe that's a "feature" for denying specific version
> > > usage in virtuals - Which is the intention, in that case? :)
> >
> > Virtuals are not versionable at present. They probably will be one day, but in
> > a different way that's not like what you are doing here. What you appear to
> > be trying to do is achievable by using the correct files.
> >
> > To do what you are trying to do, try the following:
> >
> > virtuals:
> > virtual/linux-sources   sys-kernel/development-sources
> > virtual/os-headers      sys-kernel/linux26-headers
> >
> > package.mask:
> > >sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.7
> > >sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jason Stubbs
> >
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> >
>
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