From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G6YLO-0007eb-Tw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:49:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6SJkmtp010150; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:46:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6SJiRNP029280 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:44:32 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F2664D67 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03303-21-3 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DF064D6E for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Y2J-0002Sb-Ru for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:30:15 +0200 Received: from sed-192.sedsystems.ca ([192.107.131.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:30:15 +0200 Received: from i.am by sed-192.sedsystems.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:30:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Jim Ramsay Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:30:11 -0600 Message-ID: <20060728133011.1b8e6374@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> References: <20060705115509.2905ae6d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <44AB9E70.6010205@ilievnet.com> <20060705131400.3ae53735@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <44ABB409.4080003@ilievnet.com> <342e1090607050954w3f3c12a3o47a26bab72802338@mail.gmail.com> <44AC0551.8010006@ilievnet.com> <342e1090607051217w6fabbefegb8883650b5166e38@mail.gmail.com> <20060728183015.GC6203@nibiru.local> <20060728124642.3b9c387c@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> <44CA5E2A.6090409@mid.email-server.info> <20060728191017.GB20348@nibiru.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sed-192.sedsystems.ca X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 8a9ad3ca-d817-4aa6-bf0c-5c521a39f2b6 X-Archives-Hash: 212cd0ea84f7f8a5df9d379b2167e808 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Yeah, but this would also prevent fixes in this ebuild. > (ie. if there's a typo or broken dependency) Then you could do: >=dev-db/mysql-4.2 This would allow any mysql-4.1.*, including 4.1.20-r1 and 4.1.99 Though you do raise a good point... it would be nice to specify a "real upstream version number" differently from the Gentoo "interim release number" such as -r2. Can you think of a sane way to do that? My suggestion would be to use a '+' character to represent "all possible gentoo interim releases", as follows: Masking >dev-db/mysql-4.1.20+ should allow mysql-4.1.20-r1 but not mysql-4.1.21 -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list