On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 12:56, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > I should have added that the remote compilation works well with the cable. I > have found though that the linux-firmware ebuild requires the /boot partition > to be mounted, which it shouldn't be on a foreign machine, so I say > emerge -uaDvN --exclude="linux-firmware-20241017-*", only to find that it's > emerged anyway. Dropping that last hyphen gives the required result. > > Is this a portage bug?
It is definitely weird, but it is documented to be that way. From the manual ebuild(5): The version part that comes before the ’*’ must be a valid version in the absence of the ’*’. For example, ’2’ is a valid version and ’2.’ is not. Therefore, ’2*’ is allowed and ’2.*’ is not. Regards, Arve
