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authorMark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org>2009-12-21 16:27:41 +0000
committerMark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org>2009-12-21 16:27:41 +0000
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tree9a4c4f1080a255472cc1aaa1a606d29bdff2774f
parentAdd space before parenthesis in dependency specifications. Fixes bug #286529.... (diff)
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Limit version numbers to 18 digits. Thanks to Ulrich Müller <ulm AT gentoo DOT org>; bug #282303
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gentoo.org/var/svnroot/devmanual/trunk@155 176d3534-300d-0410-8db8-84e73ed771c3
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@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ give some examples (the following list is from lowest version to highest):
</p>
<p>
+No integer part of the version may be longer than 18 digits.
+</p>
+
+<p>
Finally, version may have a Gentoo revision number in the form <c>-r1</c>. The initial
Gentoo version should have no revision suffix, the first revision should be
<c>-r1</c>, the second <c>-r2</c> and so on. See <uri link="::general-concepts/ebuild-revisions"/>.