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On 04/01/2018 00:07, Stroller wrote: |
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>> On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:53, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>> It installs exactly that version, and that exact version is recorded in |
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>>> the world file. |
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>>> $ grep -e source /var/lib/portage/world |
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>>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.9.34 |
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>> That's not a version, it's a slot. Whilst kernels are currently slotted |
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>> with the version number, nothing else is and there is no guarantee that |
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>> this will also hold for kernels. |
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> Fair enough, but there's nothing else I need to treat this way. |
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> I guess this risks that emerge will try to install 4.9.34-r1 during a future update, but I don't believe I've ever experienced that. |
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Only if the highest-versioned emerged sources are <4.9.34-r1 |
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>> If you do want to use versions, I'd recommend using ~ rather than = to |
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>> pick up patch-level updates. |
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> What do you mean by this exactly, please? |
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=4.9.34 selects that exact version and only that specific version |
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~4.9.34 select that version and also 4.9.34-r1. There might need to be a |
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* on the end of ~4.9.34, I don;t quite recall. Answer in portage's man pages |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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