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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Latest version vs specific version
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:34:19
Message-Id: 43919173.1010202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Latest version vs specific version by Jason Stubbs
1 Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Saturday 03 December 2005 13:27, Marius Mauch wrote:
3 >
4 >>Andrea Carpani wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>...
7 >>>and I have binary packages for both c-4.0 and c-4.1 when I emerge
8 >>>virtual-2.0.ebuild i get c-4.1.ebuild but if I emerge virtual-1.0 I get
9 >>>both c-4.0 (required as a dependency for virtual-1.0) and c-4.1 (as a
10 >>>dep for a-2.0 who gets the latest c even though c-4.0 would have
11 >>>satisfied the dependency.
12 >>>
13 >>>Any info on how to avoid this?
14 >>
15 >>It might be helpful if you'd post a real example and not some invalid
16 >>pseudo-ebuild syntax.
17 >
18 >
19 > Not really necessary. He has an ebuild that says "=kde-3.4.0* =xorg-x11-6.7*"
20 > which pulls in kde first which then pulls in "xorg-x11" which portage
21 > resolves to xorg-x11-6.8 after which portage processes xorg-x11-6.7* to
22 > xorg-x11-6.7 and both versions get installed (the latter overwriting the
23 > former and causing the former to be unmerged). It's essentially bug 1343.
24
25 Hmm, you must have seen more than I did then as I couldn't spot any atom
26 in the mail. Or you're just better at guessing ;)
27
28 Marius
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