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 1G6Zdp-0000YL-Bp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:13:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6SL8xF7016720; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:08:59 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 k6SL472W018640 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:04:07 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 099B864E2D for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:04:07 +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 18279-01 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:04:05 +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 B922364E2C for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G6ZUq-0002NI-BK for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:03:49 +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 23:03:48 +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 23:03:48 +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 15:03:38 -0600 Message-ID: <20060728150338.730e8478@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> References: <20060705115509.2905ae6d@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> <20060728133011.1b8e6374@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> <342e1090607281339rdfd0f8dwa07460353334e670@mail.gmail.com> 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: quoted-printable X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sed-192.sedsystems.ca In-Reply-To: <342e1090607281339rdfd0f8dwa07460353334e670@mail.gmail.com> 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: 6fb2d8be-9a3a-4b3e-b9b8-21f514bcbdc5 X-Archives-Hash: febe0cb6e09637d1be09394f0afdbca5 Message-ID: <20060728210338.lDsBIpeGuNB2qoCwzQhWFysUZpINzC6Rldzvy4yDO1o@z> Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Take a look at the "~" operator... That's what I get for not RTFM first! =46rom 'man ebuild': ~ means match any revision of the base version specified. So in the above example (~net-libs/libnet-1.0.2a), we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc... So the correct answer(?) would be to mask: >~dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 Then you get bugfixes but no new versions. --=20 Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list