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From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:42:41
Message-Id: 4227AEFD.7090700@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question by Jeremy Hanmer
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4 Jeremy Hanmer wrote:
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6 > On Mar 3, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Aaron Walker wrote:
7 >
8 >>
9 >> has_version only returns 0 or 1 depending whether the package is
10 >> installed or
11 >> not, so it's useless in this case. best_version would be a better
12 >> alternative,
13 >> however that alone won't solve the problem.
14 >
15 >
16 > That's all that's really needed since all you'd care about in this
17 > instance is the existance of one of 2 or 3 major versions. Just look
18 > for >=sys-libs-4.0 then 3.0 and so-on, compiling for the first one you
19 > find.
20
21 That would be the incorrect way of going about it. As I said in my previous
22 post, use versionator.eclass. One call to best_version and one call to
23 get_major_version is all that's needed.
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28 Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
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