hasufell schrieb:
Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:* >>
>>> This doesn't mean what you think it means. A user who has db-3 and db-7
>>> installed satisfies that dependency.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, thanks.
>>
>
> That's an interesting pit
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 22:01:05 +0100
hasufell wrote:
> That's an interesting pitfall. I am pretty sure we have this kind of
> syntax a lot in the tree. Might make sense to document it.
Would make more sense just to implement version ranges in full
generality, since developers seem to insist upon usi
On 11/02/2015 09:51 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 02:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
>> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
>>>
>>> Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:* >
>> This doesn't mean what you think
On 11/02/2015 02:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
>>
>> Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:*
> This doesn't mean what you think it means. A user who has db-3 and db-7
> installed satis
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 02:21 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:48:29 -0500
> > Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> >> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
> >
> > No. Slots are meaningless strings and do not support
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
>
> Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:* Option 2: berkdb? ( || ( sys-libs/db:4.2 ... sys-libs/db:5.3 ) )
Best option goes leftmost in ||.
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On 11/02/2015 02:21 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:48:29 -0500
> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
>
> No. Slots are meaningless strings and do not support any comparison
> except equality.
>
Followup question, which of these is
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:48:29 -0500
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
No. Slots are meaningless strings and do not support any comparison
except equality.
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On 11/02/2015 01:00 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 06:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> In the dev-lang/php ebuilds, we currently have:
>>
>> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
>>
>
> Is that necessarily a good idea? Given that the database formats are
> not com
On 11/02/2015 06:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> In the dev-lang/php ebuilds, we currently have:
>
..
>
> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
>
Is that necessarily a good idea? Given that the database formats are
not compatible between versions without cleaning out the BDB
e
In the dev-lang/php ebuilds, we currently have:
DEPEND="... berkdb? ( =sys-libs/db-4* ) ..."
PHP will actually accept any 4.x or 5.x version of db; the ./configure
flag is poorly-named:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521222
Now, we also get repoman warnings for not specifying a slot
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