From: Zac Medico Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 00:45:45 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Bug #331413 - Clarify the behavior of the =$CATEGORY/$PN-$VERSION* atom X-Git-Tag: v2.2_rc68~368 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b1eceaf79ac667eecdf1ef9585592a235c8d93f;p=portage.git Bug #331413 - Clarify the behavior of the =$CATEGORY/$PN-$VERSION* atom operator some more. Thanks to Dennis Schridde . --- diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index e39366535..94f49d700 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -286,9 +286,12 @@ and explicitly disallow them from being temporarily installed simultaneously during a series of upgrades. This syntax is supported 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... The version part +\fI*\fR means match any version of the package so long +as the specified string prefix 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... +Beware that, due to the string matching nature, '20' +will also be matched by '2*'. 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.