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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update world message
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:05:51
Message-Id: yu9d5c325zv.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Update world message by Mick
1 At Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:46:54 +0100 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Monday 17 July 2006 22:29, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
4 >
5 >> I believe the suggested entry in package.keywords would have been
6 >>
7 >> ~dev-libs/ilbc-rfc3951-0 ~x86
8 >>
9 >> (initial ~ instead of =) so that the specification includes version
10 >> bumps (null --> -r1 --> -r2 ---> ...)
11 >
12 > Thank you Allan. Yes it could have been, but I set it with ' = ' so that it
13 > would stay at the '0' version until masked as stable. I am trying to keep
14 > this box as stable as possible.
15
16 That would happen with ~ as well. That is, it would stay at the -0
17 (rather than -1, -2, etc). The ~ just allows gentoo version bumps -0
18 to -0-r1 to -0-r2 etc. The trade-off is what happens when -0 is
19 stable and -0-r1 becomes keyword masked. I prefer to go to -0-r1, but
20 I can understand why you might want to stay at -0. Like you I want to
21 keep my box as "stable" as possible and keep my package.keyword file
22 small and restricted (= or ~).
23
24 allan
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