On Tuesday 30 December 2003 08:28 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Whenever an ebuild goes from say -r1 to -r2, that is just a revision of the > ebuild, not the program itself, correct? If so, in most cases, you will get > the exact same code generated, correct? If the first one works, what is the > point of upgrading to the next revision to get the exact same code?
In addition to what ciaranm said, there are cases where the -r has to do with the package version. The only cases I know off the top of my head are with kernels. Most of the external patchsets (ck-sources, aa-sources, etc.) are setup this way. --Iggy -- Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net Gentoo -- http://gentoo.brianandsara.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
