In the dev-lang/php ebuilds, we currently have:
DEPEND="... berkdb? ( =sys-libs/db-4* ) ..."
PHP will actually accept any 4.x or 5.x version of db; the ./configure
flag is poorly-named:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521222
Now, we also get repoman warnings for not specifying a
On 11/02/2015 06:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> In the dev-lang/php ebuilds, we currently have:
>
..
>
> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
>
Is that necessarily a good idea? Given that the database formats are
not compatible between versions without cleaning out the BDB
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 02:21 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:48:29 -0500
> > Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> >> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
> >
> > No. Slots are
On 11/02/2015 01:00 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 06:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> In the dev-lang/php ebuilds, we currently have:
>>
>> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
>>
>
> Is that necessarily a good idea? Given that the database formats are
> not
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:48:29 -0500
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
No. Slots are meaningless strings and do not support any comparison
except equality.
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On 11/02/2015 02:21 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:48:29 -0500
> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> Is there a way to say "give me any 4.x or 5.x slot"?
>
> No. Slots are meaningless strings and do not support any comparison
> except equality.
>
Followup question,
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
>
> Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:* Option 2: berkdb? ( || ( sys-libs/db:4.2 ... sys-libs/db:5.3 ) )
Best option goes leftmost in ||.
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On 11/02/2015 02:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
>>
>> Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:*
> This doesn't mean what you think it means. A user who has db-3 and db-7
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 22:01:05 +0100
hasufell wrote:
> That's an interesting pitfall. I am pretty sure we have this kind of
> syntax a lot in the tree. Might make sense to document it.
Would make more sense just to implement version ranges in full
generality, since developers
On 11/02/2015 09:51 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 02:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
>> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
>>>
>>> Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:* >
>> This doesn't
hasufell schrieb:
Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:* >>
>>> This doesn't mean what you think it means. A user who has db-3 and db-7
>>> installed satisfies that dependency.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, thanks.
>>
>
> That's an interesting
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