On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15:23, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Hi, > > I have written an ebuild for pam_krb5, based on the version found in > fedora, since the one from sourceforge which is currently in portage is > way outdated. > > However, even after reading all the ebuild docs, I can't figure out how > to tell portage that version 2.1.8 is newer than 20030601. The only way I > could convince portage to replace pam_krb5-20030601-r1 with > pam_krb5-2.1.8 was to mask the former.
Usually in this case, the version marked with a date will simply be removed. Portage will then "downgrade" the package when it sees that the higher versioned package has been removed. -- Jason Stubbs
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