On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:13 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). > > I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask > > gcc-4.0.1_pre* > > I've already tried to unmask > > ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre20050616 -* > > and also > > ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1 -* > > but it didnt work. The first only only unmasked this one package and the > second one didnt unmask anything. > > I really do not want to unmask with <= foo and >= bar because I do not > want to change any other defaults. > > I'd really appreciate any pointers as to how I might do this one. > > kind regards Philip
Try =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1* -* or =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre* -* Remember that ~ only matches -r* revisions of a package, not _pre, _alpha, _beta etc. This is covered (not all that clearly, admittedly) in ebuild(5). HTH, Ed -- [email protected] mailing list
