On Wednesday 23 October 2024 12:36:23 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > 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.
Ah! Thank you Arve. The subtleties of a complex system seem endless at times... :) -- Regards, Peter.
