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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:44:09
Message-Id: 6142e6140904010644p30e05c49q3c569126ba83be34@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question by Helmut Jarausch
1 2009/4/1 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.4.1.ebuild from layman/java-overlay
5 >
6 > contains
7 >
8 > CDEPEND=".....
9 >         >=dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.25-r1:2.4
10 >
11 > What does that mean?
12 > I have
13 > dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-6.0.18
14 > installed in the 2.5 slot.
15 > But portage wants to emerge  tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.27 which
16 > is masked by me (I have masked all < tomcat-servlet-api-6)
17 > Does the '>=' apply to the version only or to the slot, as well?
18 >
19
20 Afaik this means any version greater or equal than 5.5.25-r1 which is
21 in the 2.4 slot of dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api satisfies the
22 dependency.
23
24 --
25 Regards,
26 Daniel