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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tarball doesn't have version -> portage problem
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 12:28:16
Message-Id: 200305071428.14783.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] tarball doesn't have version -> portage problem by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Wednesday 07 May 2003 14:10, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:08:12AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > The problem would be to support multiple version of the same ebuild. And
4 > > what to think of different packages wanting different, but similarly
5 > > named, source files. I think a file renaming scheme might be the best way
6 > > to handle the problems.
7 >
8 > Perhaps this is a discussion for later (when 1.4 is out), since it involves
9 > significant changes to solve problems which don't occur frequently.
10
11 Of course. It is not really a problem right now, and I know that there are
12 other problems concerning portage that are more urgent (I think so too). So
13 my standpoint is that when the tarbal is not versioned, and redistribution is
14 not allowed (so RESTRICT=nomirror should be set in the ebuild), the package
15 (and its requestor) is just out of luck.
16
17 Paul
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