On 04/01/2018 00:07, Stroller wrote: > >> On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:53, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> It installs exactly that version, and that exact version is recorded in >>> the world file. >>> >>> $ grep -e source /var/lib/portage/world >>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.9.34 >> >> That's not a version, it's a slot. Whilst kernels are currently slotted >> with the version number, nothing else is and there is no guarantee that >> this will also hold for kernels. > > Fair enough, but there's nothing else I need to treat this way. > > I guess this risks that emerge will try to install 4.9.34-r1 during a future > update, but I don't believe I've ever experienced that.
Only if the highest-versioned emerged sources are <4.9.34-r1 > >> If you do want to use versions, I'd recommend using ~ rather than = to >> pick up patch-level updates. > > What do you mean by this exactly, please? =4.9.34 selects that exact version and only that specific version ~4.9.34 select that version and also 4.9.34-r1. There might need to be a * on the end of ~4.9.34, I don;t quite recall. Answer in portage's man pages -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
