On Sun, 2005-03-04 at 21:06 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" > suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, rather > than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that > category/thing-x.y.z-r2 won't contain anything important (such as security > fixes) that isn't already in version x.y.z-r1? > > In that case, is there a way to avoid these petty upgrades when I "emerge -u > world"? > > Thanks > Robert
Your best bet to find out why there was a revision is to look at the changelog. It will show why it was revised and then you can decide for yourself if it is relevant to you or not. Sometimes they are security patches, sometimes bugfixes only for specific archs, etc., etc.. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
