Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

["Bart Verwilst" <verwilst@gentoo.org>]

Hi!

So that solves the QT problem as well?
=x11-libs/qt-x11-2* will install the latest qt 2 and
=x11-libs/qt-x11-3* will install the latest qt 3 right?
Cool.
I'll was going to reinstall my Gentoo System today,
but i'm going to wait untill the bug in portage is fixed :)

Nice feature btw!

Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Robbins" <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-announce@gentoo.org>; <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:55 AM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync


> Hi All,
>
> Tonight, I started catching up on my near 15-day backlog of Gentoo
> Linux-related mailing list postings, and started hitting lots of
discussions
> about extensions to the dependency system.  This motivated me to add the
> long-anticipated "*"-style dependency to Portage, and create a new Portage
> release, 1.6.12.  It is now on CVS.  Here are how the new "*" dependencies
> work:
>
> Let's say you'd like a package to use the most recent 1.x version of
freetype.
> You can now specify the following dependency:
>
> =media-libs/freetype-1*
>
> Or, if you want the latest 1.2.x version of gtk+, use:
>
> =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*
>
> You should only use the new "*" deps with straight version numbers; i.e.
no
> _alpha, _beta, _pre, -rX, or trailing letters.  They only really make
sense for
> straight x.y.z integer version formats anyways.  We will continue to
extend the
> dependency syntax to keep up with the needs of developers.
>
> I also added a new version of sys-apps/baselayout (1.6.5) to Portage.
This new
> release contains important fixes to the /etc/init.d/checkroot and
> /etc/init.d/netmount scripts, as well as a couple of other minor
improvements.
>
> Enjoy!