Also, what did work was >dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see
what it was ignoring, etc.
on Thursday 01/11/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > > It would be better to use ">~pkg-category/package-0.0.1". this allows
> > > > patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update
> > > > to a higher upstream version.
> > >
> > > That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't work. Even if it did it
> > > wouldn't have the intended effect since it would mask -r*...
> >
> > I tested it before posting and it did work. It didn't mask -r*, allowing
> > a upgrade.
>
> It doesn't work at all. Nothing gets masked. It's simply ignored:
>
> # cat /etc/portage/package.mask
> >~dev-lang/php-4.4.4
> # emerge -p php
> [SNIP]
> [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE="..."
>
> # cat /etc/portage/package.mask
> >dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r9999
> # emerge -p php
> [SNIP]
> [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6 USE="..."
>
> That goes for both stable and ~arch portage.
>
>
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> Bo Andresen
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