Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Atom matching behavior
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:48:57
Message-Id: 200608010048.05468.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Atom matching behavior by Drake Wyrm
1 On Monday 31 July 2006 23:57, Drake Wyrm wrote:
2 > The question I'm trying to ask is this: =foo-1.2.* should obviously
3 > match "foo-1.2.3", but should it also match on "foo-1.2"? It seems more
4 > _useful_ that the 1.2 version would also match, despite not having the
5 > .3 subversion, but perhaps that is not perfectly intuitive from the
6 > syntax.
7
8 portage versions have implicit .0 extension ad infinitum so matching 1.2 would
9 make logical sense as it is really just 1.2.0 ...
10 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Atom matching behavior Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>