From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhiXi-0007ew-6d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:53:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71887E02B9; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f173.google.com (mail-ew0-f173.google.com [209.85.219.173]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A47E02B9 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so288489ewy.34 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:53:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=PrtwsZfAg5ZFePw70DFkdkvMN++vHLa6QZBFaGVcyt8=; b=YAL3YIOmMrwV+GB6WExi7t9kDYwMWpLkmU2Mu7MhDiBS/4e6Y/+L0q++O38BoK3p98 dKam+gkY/OCvy29HszrUm37shjFbG7i0wH7pmhVRDnIt4ID3HHANThJOSvy94o/6AxCr l/PW9uhgdwlWjqaKgndibv6DDSH7lgGw8yF38= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=FhJSwLLYk3I0FVWGtcq1VOZVpAwxIe8vbsNv8uWZLatHlLPIulmm+htQF6kxBCpC+0 5Vd0WVQMy5IUWbWOQ53BncqU1DusnIJLd7kQZcLVvcxcuuzdnwiHtxAeDMpQ8VCx2fDe n0x4enDCjkL3/7O/EHdSVoQRHuQ4CVHnv6lU4= Received: by 10.216.22.206 with SMTP id t56mr3922369wet.131.1236855215568; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:53:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-227-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm523437eyx.4.2009.03.12.03.53.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:53:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:52:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.28-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> <200903120956.47288.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090312094848.3ef8acdb@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090312094848.3ef8acdb@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903121252.16721.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d2dc73bf-4352-42b2-8d78-0facccf68f8d X-Archives-Hash: 42dbfe9d9a2ec36b395653cc55259ddd On Thursday 12 March 2009 11:48:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version > > (including -r0) of the base version. > > I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it > could be used at the end too. and we both know what "assume" stands for, right? You must be English. Only an Englishman could point out a blunder like that in such a subtle way as to make the other guy cringe with embarrassment... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com