Re: profiles/updates/ 'move' lacks support for versioned syntax (was: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo)

[Samuli Suominen]

On 04/23/2012 03:28 PM, Duncan wrote:
Samuli Suominen posted on Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:22:53 +0300 as excerpted:
Title: The default JPEG implementation

[...]

All users are recommended to migrate:

# emerge -C media-libs/jpeg:0
# emerge -1 media-libs/libjpeg-turbo
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There's no way to use portage's automatic block-resolving ability here to
avoid that, I take it?

Too bad profiles/updates/ doesn't support versioned syntax[1] like,

'move =media-libs/jpeg-8* media-libs/libjpeg-turbo'

Portage just says,

ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move =media-libs/jpeg-8* 
media-libs/libjpeg-turbo'

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/271985