Jurek Bartuszek wrote:
>> Only a short response, as I'm a bit in a hurry right now. From
>> #gentoo-council earlier:
>>
>> 18:25 <@robbat2> make him covert it to "_rc%04d%04d%02d%02d",$RC,$YEAR,
>> $MONTH,$DAY
>>
>
> Let me see if I have this straight: suppose we have package foo-0.1_rc2
> released (very outdated) and we're waiting for foo-0.1_rc3. Then example
> of something between those two would be foo-0.1_rc000220070313? Would
> that force portage to update to this version? Wouldn't that prevent
> portage from enforcing update to _rc3 when it's delivered? Of course I
> might be wrong and if this is the case then excuse me for the whole fuss ;)
>
> Best regards,
> Jurek
>
This was one of the very valid use cases proposed and is definitely a
situation where robbat2's suggestion will not work.
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