I always stumble around endlessly whenever I attempt to use math
symbols in emerge commands.
To Neil B and others who have patiently explained this to me on
several occasions... I can only plead deep seated idiocy but I'm not
getting why this happens.
I want to `unmerge' (-C) versions of gentoo-sources prior to -2.6.20-r6
However this fails:
root # emerge -vpC "<"gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r6
>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
--- Couldn't find '<gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r6' to unmerge.
>>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge
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However the same command run in `install' mode works:
root # emerge -vp "<"gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r6
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r5 \
USE="-build -symlink" 42,570 kB
As expected the next lower package is offered.
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