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From: Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:58:24
Message-Id: 44AA0FA4.60603@cisco.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)? by Ryan Tandy
1 I just read this in the developer's guide:
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3 http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html
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5 |~app-misc/foo-1.23| Version 1.23 (or any |1.23-r*|) is required.
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7 I was wondering if this would work in package.keywords, package.mask, etc.
8 so tried it. It does appear to work...
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10 # eix -e portage
11 * sys-apps/portage
12 Available versions: 2.0.51.22-r3 2.0.54-r2 2.1 2.1-r1
13 2.1.1_pre1-r5 2.1.1_pre2-r2
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15 # echo "~sys-apps/portage-2.1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
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17 # eix -e portage
18 * sys-apps/portage
19 Available versions: 2.0.51.22-r3 2.0.54-r2 [M]2.1 [M]2.1-r1
20 2.1.1_pre1-r5 2.1.1_pre2-r2
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22 Have fun,
23 Roy
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Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)? Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>