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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2010-08-06 17:45:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2010-08-06 17:45:45 -0700 |
| commit | 2b1eceaf79ac667eecdf1ef9585592a235c8d93f (patch) | |
| tree | c42675960707a4467db98e83e41ca48acbeffa52 | |
| parent | 67797d2ed2914b5eb805e096904fd34ace78f74f (diff) | |
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Bug #331413 - Clarify the behavior of the =$CATEGORY/$PN-$VERSION* atom
operator some more. Thanks to Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net>.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/ebuild.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index e39366535..94f49d700 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -286,9 +286,12 @@ and explicitly disallow them from being temporarily installed simultaneously during a series of upgrades. This syntax is supported beginning with \fBEAPI 2\fR. .br -\fI*\fR means match any version of the package so long as the specified base -is matched. So with a version of '2*', we can match '2.1', '2.2', '2.2.1', -etc... and not match version '1.0', '3.0', '4.1', etc... The version part +\fI*\fR means match any version of the package so long +as the specified string prefix is matched. So with a +version of '2*', we can match '2.1', '2.2', '2.2.1', +etc... and not match version '1.0', '3.0', '4.1', etc... +Beware that, due to the string matching nature, '20' +will also be matched by '2*'. The version part that comes before the '*' must be a valid version in the absence of the '*'. For example, '2' is a valid version and '2.' is not. Therefore, '2*' is allowed and '2.*' is not. |