Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 03:07, Michael Marineau wrote:
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> | Interface?  It wouldn't differ from how upgrades are currently performed.
> |
> | - Change your profile to a newer one
> The above step is the one that I see as unclear in the current system.
> | - emerge -pv system
> | - emerge -pv world
> | - modify make.conf, /etc/portage/* to taste
> | - and so on
>
> | Depends on how the package is versioned in the profile. E.g.  if you have
> | glibc-2.3.2-r2 installed, and your profile has:
> |
> | =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2
> |

Except if anything change, this is wrong - it should be:

 ~sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2

> | You will get glibc-2.3.2-r3 and any other updates, but not 2.3.3 or later.
> | If, for whatever reason, that release needs to be updated to 2.3.3, the
> | profile will need to be changed.  Which is not an issue if there's a valid
> | reason why it needs to be done.
> Sounds reasonable to me.
> |
> | Cheers,
> | Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o]
> | Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F
> |
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa