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From: Jim Ramsay <i.am@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:11:55
Message-Id: 20060728150338.730e8478@sed-192.sedsystems.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons by Daniel da Veiga
1 Daniel da Veiga wrote:
2 > Take a look at the "~" operator...
3
4 That's what I get for not RTFM first!
5
6 >From 'man ebuild':
7
8 ~ means match any revision of the base version specified. So in the
9 above example (~net-libs/libnet-1.0.2a), we would match versions
10 '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc...
11
12 So the correct answer(?) would be to mask:
13
14 >~dev-db/mysql-4.1.20
15
16 Then you get bugfixes but no new versions.
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19 Jim Ramsay
20 "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
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