Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question

[Jeremy Hanmer <jeremy@hq.newdream.net>]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Aaron Walker wrote:
>
> has_version only returns 0 or 1 depending whether the package is 
> installed or
> not, so it's useless in this case.  best_version would be a better 
> alternative,
> however that alone won't solve the problem.

That's all that's really needed since all you'd care about in this 
instance is the existance of one of 2 or 3 major versions.  Just look 
for >=sys-libs-4.0 then 3.0 and so-on, compiling for the first one you 
find.

> Read about best_version in the ebuild(5) manual page.  After you're 
> done with
> that, read about the versionator eclass in the versionator.eclass(5) 
> manual
> page (may have to emerge portage-manpages).  You'll probably have to 
> use a
> combination of both to do what you're trying to achieve.
>
> HTH
>
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