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Bug 22919 - If specified in "USE" (Ex. USE="major-version-only") emerge will only update if a major relase has been relased.
Summary: If specified in "USE" (Ex. USE="major-version-only") emerge will only update ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-06-16 04:36 UTC by Paolo
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Paolo 2003-06-16 04:36:18 UTC 
As in the summary.

EX: If I have " USE="major-version-only" " and a program at version 2.4.20, 
emerge will not update my program unless a new major version (ex 2.5.x) has 
been relased.

Hope will help.

ByEZz,
Paolo

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-07-09 12:35:02 UTC 
who is to say an upstream doesnt use A for major releases (in A.B.C format)
instead of B ?  or even C ?

for instance, perl went from 5.6 to 5.8 and that was major
openssl went from 0.9.6 to 0.9.7 and that was major
gcc went from 3.1 to 3.2 and that was major

but other apps go from 1 to 2 ...

in other words i think we should forget about this whole bug ;)
Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-21 10:38:44 UTC 
Not even mentioning versions like 20030811. Any objections if I close this ?
Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-22 23:20:28 UTC 
emerge -u blah

will only update required packages.
And we cannot support what you are asking for.