Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:47:00
Message-Id: 1090440743.19552.114.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 by Dylan Carlson
1 On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 20:54, Dylan Carlson wrote:
2 > Depends on how the package is versioned in the profile. E.g. if you have
3 > glibc-2.3.2-r2 installed, and your profile has:
4 >
5 > =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2
6 >
7 > You will get glibc-2.3.2-r3 and any other updates, but not 2.3.3 or later.
8 > If, for whatever reason, that release needs to be updated to 2.3.3, the
9 > profile will need to be changed. Which is not an issue if there's a valid
10 > reason why it needs to be done.
11
12 Actually, if =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2 was in your profile, then 2.3.2-r1
13 would never install. Neither would *any* version other than 2.3.2
14 exactly.
15
16 --
17 Chris Gianelloni
18 Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
19 Gentoo Linux
20
21 Is your power animal a penguin?

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