On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 03:27:24PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Joel Martin wrote: > >Instead of -rY-localX, I do -rX0Y the following in my local overlays. > >This gets the same effect and maintains both version numbers. And if > >you are worried about a revision number exceeding 99, then just do > >-rX00Y. This works without requiring code change to portage. > > This only assures that your version will be preferred as long as the > version number is the same, but is really not what malverian is after. > > That being said, I think this whole debate is really up to the portage > team. After all, this change won't affect the Gentoo Devs other than > that they can use the feature for their networks too, if they like it. > > The people who have to maintain the code that implements the feature > should just give an ACK/NACK and go on or leave it, IMO. > Should I copy the gentoo-portage-dev ML on this? I posted to this mailing list originally per zmedico.
> -- > Kind Regards, > > Simon Stelling > Gentoo/AMD64 developer > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
