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On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:19, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:48:05AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Monday 31 July 2006 23:57, Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> > > The question I'm trying to ask is this: =foo-1.2.* should obviously |
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> > > match "foo-1.2.3", but should it also match on "foo-1.2"? It seems more |
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> > > _useful_ that the 1.2 version would also match, despite not having the |
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> > > .3 subversion, but perhaps that is not perfectly intuitive from the |
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> > > syntax. |
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> > |
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> > portage versions have implicit .0 extension ad infinitum so matching 1.2 |
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> > would make logical sense as it is really just 1.2.0 ... |
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> Err... wrong actually (try emerge -pv =dev-util/diffball-0.6.5 and |
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> emerge -pv =dev-util/diffball-0.6.5.0). cpv's don't have implicit .0 |
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> extensions, and that should _not_ be changed. |
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when it comes to version comparing, there is implicit .0 extension ... which |
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is what we're talking about here, comparing versions |
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-mike |
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