Bug #331413 - Clarify valid $VERSION parts that may be used in

conjunction with the =$CATEGORY/$PN-$VERSION* atom operator.

diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index 5c71cbead52d97bf1875d3f155aef17315aad98e..e39366535f8b1a63f8223dc0917c17fa10373700 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -288,7 +288,10 @@ beginning with \fBEAPI 2\fR.
 .br
 \fI*\fR means match any version of the package so long as the specified base
 is matched.  So with a version of '2*', we can match '2.1', '2.2', '2.2.1',
-etc... and not match version '1.0', '3.0', '4.1', etc...
+etc... and not match version '1.0', '3.0', '4.1', etc... 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.
 .br
 \fI~\fR 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',