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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to tell 2.1.8 > 20030601
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:38:45
Message-Id: 200508231936.51304.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] How to tell 2.1.8 > 20030601 by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15:23, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I have written an ebuild for pam_krb5, based on the version found in
5 > fedora, since the one from sourceforge which is currently in portage is
6 > way outdated.
7 >
8 > However, even after reading all the ebuild docs, I can't figure out how
9 > to tell portage that version 2.1.8 is newer than 20030601. The only way I
10 > could convince portage to replace pam_krb5-20030601-r1 with
11 > pam_krb5-2.1.8 was to mask the former.
12
13 Usually in this case, the version marked with a date will simply be removed.
14 Portage will then "downgrade" the package when it sees that the higher
15 versioned package has been removed.
16
17 --
18 Jason Stubbs

Replies

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[gentoo-dev] /var/cache Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar <dulmandakh@×××××××.mn>
Re: [gentoo-dev] How to tell 2.1.8 > 20030601 Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>