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From: Chris Smart <taskara@internode.on.net>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] package.keywords: possibility to choose a minimum version?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:24:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4356E3D6.2090807@internode.on.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4356D9A9.6080107@bricart.de>

Christian Bricart wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is it by any means possible to specify a _minimum_ version of a package?
> i.e. you have different slots for a package and one wants to have any 
> version from a specific release and do not want to miss any updates 
> onwards?

With package.keywords you could use
 >=category/package-version

ie
 >=dev-db/mysql-4.0.25-r2

but afaik this will also want to install packages that are marked 
unstable, ie mysql 4.1.x

So add  "arch" to the end, ie

 >=dev-db/mysql-4.0.25-r2 x86

-c

>
> Christian
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-20  0:26 UTC|newest]

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2005-10-19 23:41 [gentoo-server] package.keywords: possibility to choose a minimum version? Christian Bricart
2005-10-20  0:24 ` Chris Smart [this message]

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