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On 07/20/04 Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> Depends on how the package is versioned in the profile. E.g. if you |
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> have glibc-2.3.2-r2 installed, and your profile has: |
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> =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2 |
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> You will get glibc-2.3.2-r3 and any other updates, but not 2.3.3 or |
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> later. If, for whatever reason, that release needs to be updated to |
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> 2.3.3, the profile will need to be changed. Which is not an issue if |
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> there's a valid reason why it needs to be done. |
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Incorrect. The = means exactly that version, to include revisions you |
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have to use the ~ operator. Unfortunately a value like |
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~sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r9 (to include -r9, -r10, ... but not -r8 or |
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2.3.3) is invalid. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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