From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:33:06 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Bug #244485 - Document the !!atom blocker syntax.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_rc15~61
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=449c20fa3d4a8e4c685197ca8d75bbacbb4bde45;p=portage.git

Bug #244485 - Document the !!atom blocker syntax.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=11901
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index a2b067dd4..bfb7caede 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -244,10 +244,16 @@ examples you may find in the portage tree:
 =dev\-libs/glib\-2\fI*\fR
 \fI!\fR=net\-fs/samba\-2\fI*\fR
 \fI~\fRnet\-libs/libnet\-1.0.2a
+\fI!!\fR<sys\-apps/portage\-2.1.4_rc1\fI\fR
 .fi
 
 \fI!\fR means block packages from being installed at the same time.
 .br
+\fI!!\fR means block packages from being installed at the same time
+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...