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On 2006-02-25 23:16:36 -0600 (Sat, Feb), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> > > So, it's based on the collective opinion of the gentoo developers? |
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> > > Wouldn't it be better to put that in the hands of the gentoo user? |
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> > |
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> > IMHO it already is. It's called PORTAGE_OVERLAY. |
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> Again, hard to do automatically. Wheras, if I could just set |
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> ACCEPT_UPSTREAM="BETA" I'd get all the betas. Or I could use |
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> package.upstream and but in "kde-extra/kaffeine ALPHA" and get anything |
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> assigned more than a snapshot number for that package. (Instead of |
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> manually checking after each sync to see if there's a new, masked |
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> version.) |
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In 'man 5 ebuild' I see: |
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Atom Versions |
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It is nice to be more specific and say that only certain versions of atoms |
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are acceptable. Note that versions must be combined with a prefix (see below). |
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Hence you may add a version number as a postfix to the base: |
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sys-apps/sed-4.0.5 |
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sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4-r1 |
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net-misc/dhcp-3.0_p2 |
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Versions are normally made up of two or three numbers separated by periods, |
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such as 1.2 or 4.5.2. This string may be followed by a character such as 1.2a |
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or 4.5.2z. Note that this letter is not meant to indicate alpha, beta, |
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etc... status. For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha, _beta, _pre |
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(pre-release), _rc (release candidate), or _p (patch). This means for the 3rd |
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pre-release of a package, you would use something like 1.2_pre3. |
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I suppose that you could prepare a script that builds your |
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/etc/portage files to unmask packages with _beta versions, |
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or with any other criteria contained in ebuild. |
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