On Thursday 03 August 2006 01:44, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:07:35AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > Repost from gentoo-portage-dev[1]:
> >
> > Was just brought to my attention that the =* operator doesn't work as I
> > thought, as for example =foo-1.2* matches foo-1.20 as we
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:07:35 +0200
Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Opinions?
Current behaviour is sub-optimal in many regards, but the tree relies
upon it; amongst other examples, packages depending upon =autoconf-2.5*
expect to get 2.59. If someone wants to 'fix' all of those, and any
o
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:59:01 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:07:35 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | "* means match any version of the package so long as the
> specified | base is matched"
> |
> | can be read both ways.
> |
> | Opinion
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:07:35 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| "* means match any version of the package so long as the specified
| base is matched"
|
| can be read both ways.
|
| Opinions?
Oooh! I have opinions!
If you're changing the dep behaviour, you might as well just do it
Marius Mauch wrote:
> Repost from gentoo-portage-dev[1]:
>
> Was just brought to my attention that the =* operator doesn't work as I
> thought, as for example =foo-1.2* matches foo-1.20 as well as foo-1.2.3.
> This wouldn't be a bug problem if it could be used as a general glob
> operator like with
On Thursday 03 August 2006 07:07, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Opinions?
I actually tried to brought this in a few times, and mostly I was either
ignored or told to live with it I think.
But I agree with you in requiring a solution. As Harald said, changing the
behaviour "in the run" isn't a funny choi
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:07:35AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Repost from gentoo-portage-dev[1]:
>
> Was just brought to my attention that the =* operator doesn't work as I
> thought, as for example =foo-1.2* matches foo-1.20 as well as foo-1.2.3.
> This wouldn't be a bug problem if it could be
Repost from gentoo-portage-dev[1]:
Was just brought to my attention that the =* operator doesn't work as I
thought, as for example =foo-1.2* matches foo-1.20 as well as foo-1.2.3.
This wouldn't be a bug problem if it could be used as a general glob
operator like with =foo-1.2.*, but it's use is st
