On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:22:04AM +0200, George Shapovalov wrote: > ????????????, 21. ?????????????? 2006 01:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ???? > ????????????????: > [...] > > I'm writing to ask for your opinion on a change to sys-apps/portage that > > would allow users to maintain local revisions of ebuilds, such as > > "net-www/apache-2.0.58-r2-local1". > [...] > Um, I am not clear on what exactly your approach proposes that is not already > available via just using a local portage overlay? From the description or > cited cases this seems to be exactly this feature, or am I missing something? >
You are missing something. The point of a local revision number is that it would allow an actual version bump so the package is seen as an upgrade. If you read the detailed explanation of #3, you can see why this is useful. > George > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
