Bug 85951

Summary:	man 5 ebuild and the ebuild HOWTO tell different things about using ~ in DEPEND
Product:	[OLD] Docs-developer	Reporter:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse>
Component:	Portage Documentation	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-19 15:18:54 UTC

from man 5 ebuild:

~  means  match  any  revision of the base version specified.  So in the above
   example, we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc...

from http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1

~sys-apps/qux-1.0 will select the newest portage revision of qux-1.0.


Reproducible: Always
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Expected Results:  
They should tell the same thing (the right thing ;D )

Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-19 18:03:25 UTC

They do say the same thing. A "portage revision" is the -rX part of the full ebuild name.

Comment 2 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-20 05:48:21 UTC

The way I understood these is:
man 5 ebuild: 
~ would be the same as using = and *
howto:
the ebuild won't install unless you have the latest version

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-03-20 11:34:56 UTC

revision != version