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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2007-04-14 02:04:53 +0000
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2007-04-14 02:04:53 +0000
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document new version suffix style #166522
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=6395
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index 0ebf0e11d..892824bc1 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ The base atom is just a full category/packagename. Hence, these are base atoms:
.TP
.B Atom Versions
It is nice to be more specific and say that only certain versions of atoms are
-acceptable. Note that versions must be combined with a prefix (see below). Hence
-you may add a version number as a postfix to the base:
+acceptable. Note that versions must be combined with a prefix (see below).
+Hence you may add a version number as a postfix to the base:
.nf
sys\-apps/sed\fI\-4.0.5\fR
@@ -195,11 +195,12 @@ net\-misc/dhcp\fI\-3.0_p2\fR
.fi
Versions are normally made up of two or three numbers separated by periods, such
-as 1.2 or 4.5.2. This string may be followed by a character such as 1.2a or 4.5.2z.
-Note that this letter is \fBnot\fR meant to indicate alpha, beta, etc... status.
-For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha, _beta, _pre (pre\-release), _rc
-(release candidate), or _p (patch). This means for the 3rd pre\-release of a package,
-you would use something like 1.2_pre3.
+as 1.2 or 4.5.2. This string may be followed by a character such as 1.2a or
+4.5.2z. Note that this letter is \fBnot\fR meant to indicate alpha, beta,
+etc... status. For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha, _beta, _pre
+(pre\-release), _rc (release candidate), or _p (patch). This means for the
+3rd pre\-release of a package, you would use something like 1.2_pre3. The
+suffixes here can be arbitrarily chained without limitation.
.TP
.B Atom Prefix Operators [> >= = <= <]
Sometimes you want to be able to depend on general versions rather than specifying