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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:03:17
Message-Id: 20060807165304.GC8026@nibiru.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons by Jim Ramsay
1 * Jim Ramsay <i.am@×××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 <snip>
4
5 > Then you could do:
6 >
7 > >=dev-db/mysql-4.2
8 >
9 > This would allow any mysql-4.1.*, including 4.1.20-r1 and 4.1.99
10 >
11 > Though you do raise a good point... it would be nice to specify a "real
12 > upstream version number" differently from the Gentoo "interim release
13 > number" such as -r2. Can you think of a sane way to do that?
14
15 Simply normalize the version numbers to a fixed amount of digit
16 and use another one for gentoo's revisions ?
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18 I'm using 4 digits at my own buildsystem, but sometimes the upstream
19 requires them all for itself, so we need some more, ie. 6
20
21 <snip>
22
23 > Masking
24 > >dev-db/mysql-4.1.20+
25 > should allow mysql-4.1.20-r1 but not mysql-4.1.21
26
27 "=dev-db/mysql-4.1.20.*" seems to be cleaner to me.
28
29 Maybe
30
31 "=dev-db/mysql-4.2.20" could be considered equal.
32
33
34 cu
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