[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Portage questions

2015-09-20 Thread Duncan
Joakim Tjernlund posted on Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:13:40 + as excerpted: > Is there a way to generate a snapshot of an installed portage VDB and > then later compare that snapshot against the current VDB and generate > a list of added/updated packages? That one is either relatively simple,

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage questions

2015-09-20 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/16/2015 06:13 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > 1) > Is there a way to generate a snapshot of an installed portage VDB and then > later > compare that snapshot against the current VDB and generate a list of > added/updated packages? This command will generate a flat file that is useful

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] match_from_list: restrict =* to match only on version part boundaries (bug 560466)

2015-09-20 Thread Zac Medico
Make the =* glob match only on boundaries between version parts, in order to eliminate ambiguity (so that 1* does not match version 10). Only break compatibility in cases where dependencies have been specified ambiguously. X-Gentoo-Bug: 560466 X-Gentoo-Bug-url: