On April 3, 2005 09:24 pm, quoth Dion Sole: > Robert Persson wrote: > > It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" > > suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, > > rather than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that > > category/thing-x.y.z-r2 won't contain anything important (such as > > security fixes) that isn't already in version x.y.z-r1? > > > > In that case, is there a way to avoid these petty upgrades when I "emerge > > -u world"? > > > > Thanks > > Robert > > Not always. > The -rX builds represent Gentoo-specific updates, ie something like a > new patch, that sorta thing. This can include security fixes, if they > are released as a patch rather than as an actual update to the upstream > package, which would result in a version bump for the ebuild. > > As to blocking all *-r bumps, I don't think you can.
but if I *-r bumps do sometimes include security patches then blocking them arbitrarily would probably not be such a good idea after all. Thanks Brian, Chris and Nick for your suggestions and for clearing that up for me. Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
