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From: Jeremy Hanmer <jeremy@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:21:08
Message-Id: 71767f93c823c6a61340741706d66c11@hq.newdream.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question by Aaron Walker
1 On Mar 3, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Aaron Walker wrote:
2 >
3 > has_version only returns 0 or 1 depending whether the package is
4 > installed or
5 > not, so it's useless in this case. best_version would be a better
6 > alternative,
7 > however that alone won't solve the problem.
8
9 That's all that's really needed since all you'd care about in this
10 instance is the existance of one of 2 or 3 major versions. Just look
11 for >=sys-libs-4.0 then 3.0 and so-on, compiling for the first one you
12 find.
13
14 > Read about best_version in the ebuild(5) manual page. After you're
15 > done with
16 > that, read about the versionator eclass in the versionator.eclass(5)
17 > manual
18 > page (may have to emerge portage-manpages). You'll probably have to
19 > use a
20 > combination of both to do what you're trying to achieve.
21 >
22 > HTH
23 >
24 > - --
25 > printk(KERN_EMERG "PCI: Tell willy he's wrong
26 > ");
27 > linux-2.6.6/arch/parisc/kernel/pci.c
28 >
29 > Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
30 > [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim |
31 > web-apps ]
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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>