Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 23 October 2024 12:36:23 BST Arve Barsnes wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 12:56, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > I should have added that the remote compilation works well with the cable.
> > I have found though that the linux-firmware ebuild requires the /boot
> > partition to be mounted, which it shouldn't be on a foreign machine, so I
> > say emerge -uaDvN --exclude="linux-firmware-20241017-*", only to find
> > that it's emerged anyway. Dropping that last hyphen gives the required
> > result.
> > 
> > Is this a portage bug?
> 
> It is definitely weird, but it is documented to be that way. From the
> manual ebuild(5):
> 
> The version part that comes before the ’*’ must be a valid version in
> the absence of the ’*’. For example, ’2’ is a valid version and ’2.’
> is not. Therefore, ’2*’ is allowed and ’2.*’ is not.

Ah! Thank you Arve. The subtleties of a complex system seem endless at 
times...  :)

-- 
Regards,
Peter.