Bug 464

Summary:	the * dependency
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Geert Bevin <gbevin>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Geert Bevin <gbevin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Geert Bevin 2002-01-31 15:01:11 UTC

Apparently the * dependency doesn't really work correctly. dev-lang/python-2.1*
should not be resolved by an installed python-2.2 package, while it currently is.

Comment 1 Geert Bevin 2002-02-01 11:00:48 UTC

seems that the format is "=dev-lang/python-2.1*" and that this works, closing