> On 3 Jan 2018, at 22:11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> >>>> $ grep -e source /var/lib/portage/world >>>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.9.34 >>> ... >> >> 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
Yes, in the quoted example above I grepped my world file for sources and 4.9.34 is currently installed. >> >>> 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 I thought it was something like that, but searched `man portage` for "~" more than one way, and didn't find reference to this. Am I blind? Stroller.
