Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] man/ebuild.5: Update description of =* operator.

2015-09-22 Thread Brian Dolbec
mentioned on the big dev thread a couple times, and I > was as a result surprised to see the "bug fix" here without so much > as a mention that if the date string thing worked it was only by > accident, as it was always exploiting a bug...) > > But as a workaround, has any

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] man/ebuild.5: Update description of =* operator.

2015-09-22 Thread Duncan
ng thing worked it was only by accident, as it was always exploiting a bug...) But as a workaround, has anyone suggested the obvious... 2015.0922 ? I find 2015.0922 visually easier to parse than 20150922, in any case, and in fact routinely do break it down into four-digit substrings here

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/ebuild.5: Update description of =* operator.

2015-09-22 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:45:38 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 22/09/15 16:27, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > But, I wonder if the change had a bug side effect...causing him > > the grief > It appears the "problem" is that he can't exploit an old

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/ebuild.5: Update description of =* operator.

2015-09-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 22/09/15 16:27, Brian Dolbec wrote: > But, I wonder if the change had a bug side effect...causing him > the grief It appears the "problem" is that he can't exploit an old bug. So it's actually the opposite. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org htt

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/ebuild.5: Update description of =* operator.

2015-09-22 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:19:35 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/22/2015 12:15 AM, Ulrich Müller wrote: > > After commit d4966a381ee4577818bd972946647338046715b1 > > "match_from_list: restrict =* to match only on version part > > boundaries" the description of the =* operator in ebuild(5) was > > no

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/ebuild.5: Update description of =* operator.

2015-09-22 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/22/2015 12:15 AM, Ulrich Müller wrote: > After commit d4966a381ee4577818bd972946647338046715b1 > "match_from_list: restrict =* to match only on version part > boundaries" the description of the =* operator in ebuild(5) was > no longer accurate. > > This reverts commit 2b1eceaf79ac667eecdf1ef

[gentoo-portage-dev] Team leader(s) election meeting

2015-09-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Friends, please set your availability[0] for our next meeting, where we will elect team leader(s). We should probably also clear up the memberships as most of the members haven't been active in months (some have actually never been active at all).

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/ebuild.5: Update description of =* operator.

2015-09-22 Thread Ulrich Müller
After commit d4966a381ee4577818bd972946647338046715b1 "match_from_list: restrict =* to match only on version part boundaries" the description of the =* operator in ebuild(5) was no longer accurate. This reverts commit 2b1eceaf79ac667eecdf1ef9585592a235c8d93f. --- man/ebuild.5 | 9 +++-- 1 fil