Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Take a look at the "~" operator... That's what I get for not RTFM first!
>From 'man ebuild': ~ means match any revision of the base version specified. So in the above example (~net-libs/libnet-1.0.2a), we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc... So the correct answer(?) would be to mask: >~dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 Then you get bugfixes but no new versions. -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list