Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 7/28/06, Jim Ramsay <i.am@jimramsay.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Take a look at the "~" operator...

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