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From: Chris Smart <taskara@××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] package.keywords: possibility to choose a minimum version?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:26:11
Message-Id: 4356E3D6.2090807@internode.on.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] package.keywords: possibility to choose a minimum version? by Christian Bricart
1 Christian Bricart wrote:
2
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > is it by any means possible to specify a _minimum_ version of a package?
6 > i.e. you have different slots for a package and one wants to have any
7 > version from a specific release and do not want to miss any updates
8 > onwards?
9
10 With package.keywords you could use
11 >=category/package-version
12
13 ie
14 >=dev-db/mysql-4.0.25-r2
15
16 but afaik this will also want to install packages that are marked
17 unstable, ie mysql 4.1.x
18
19 So add "arch" to the end, ie
20
21 >=dev-db/mysql-4.0.25-r2 x86
22
23 -c
24
25 >
26 > Christian
27 >
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