Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

[Thanasis]

on 01/28/2014 10:12 PM eroen wrote the following:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:29:21 +0200, Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
> wrote:
>> Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest
>> 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with
>> the latest gentoo-sources?
>>
>> Currently, that would be version 3.10.28.
>> I know I can specify it like so,
>> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.28
>>
>> but then it would not get "auto-updated" when a newer version of that
>> series (for example 3.10.29) becomes available in portage.
>
> Afaik there is no configuration-only way to do this, but you can make
> it happen by adding your own virtual ebuilds in a local overlay[1],
> say virtual/thanasis-sources, then adding that to world.
>
> You can make one ebuild for each kernel-series you want, each in its
> own slot, using the =cat/pkg-3.10* syntax for RDEPEND. Find attached a
> (barely tested) suggestion for
> virtual/thanasis-sources/thanasis-sources-3.10.ebuild .

Thanks eroen, I tested it and it looks like it works.

One caveat,
> =cat/pkg-3.10* also matches cat/pkg-3.107.1,

I guess that kernel versions >= 3.100 are going to be in the tree, if
ever, probably in about a decade from now :P

> which could become an
> issue if you wanted, say, the 3.2 series.

Why would that be a problem?
In the ebuild, you specified the value
RDEPEND="=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-${PV}*"