Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:50:12 -0500 Roy Wright <royw@cisco.com> wrote:

> I just read this in the developer's guide:
>
>   http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html
>
>   |~app-misc/foo-1.23| Version 1.23 (or any |1.23-r*|) is required.
>
> I was wondering if this would work in package.keywords, package.mask, etc.
> so tried it.  It does appear to work...
>
> # eix -e portage
> * sys-apps/portage
>      Available versions:  2.0.51.22-r3 2.0.54-r2 2.1 2.1-r1
>      2.1.1_pre1-r5 2.1.1_pre2-r2
>
> # echo "~sys-apps/portage-2.1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
>
> # eix -e portage
> * sys-apps/portage
>      Available versions:  2.0.51.22-r3 2.0.54-r2 [M]2.1 [M]2.1-r1
>      2.1.1_pre1-r5 2.1.1_pre2-r2

Good find.  I saw some posts here using it and wondered why the same
"typo" appeared.  I just checked the portage man page, which describes
the various package.* files, and this usage of `~' is not documented.
Should I file a documentation bug?

allan
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