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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: profiles/updates/ 'move' lacks support for versioned syntax (was: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:53:05
Message-Id: 4F954FDA.9020205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 04/23/2012 03:28 PM, Duncan wrote:
2 > Samuli Suominen posted on Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:22:53 +0300 as excerpted:
3 >
4 >> Title: The default JPEG implementation
5 >
6 > [...]
7 >
8 >> All users are recommended to migrate:
9 >>
10 >> # emerge -C media-libs/jpeg:0
11 >> # emerge -1 media-libs/libjpeg-turbo
12 >
13 > There's no way to use portage's automatic block-resolving ability here to
14 > avoid that, I take it?
15
16 Too bad profiles/updates/ doesn't support versioned syntax[1] like,
17
18 'move =media-libs/jpeg-8* media-libs/libjpeg-turbo'
19
20 Portage just says,
21
22 ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move =media-libs/jpeg-8*
23 media-libs/libjpeg-turbo'
24
25 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/271985

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