On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:06:31 -0700 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the | "r" suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the | ebuild, rather than to the package itself. If that is so, would that | mean that category/thing-x.y.z-r2 won't contain anything important | (such as security fixes) that isn't already in version x.y.z-r1?
Completely incorrect. -r represents a change **that is significant to the end user**. Pure ebuild fixes get no -r bump, nor do compile fixes that don't affect the installed binary. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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