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From: Abhishek Amit <abhishekamit2000@×××××.com>
To: Per Wigren <wigren@××××.se>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds...
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:28:26
Message-Id: 20030326232820.GA9138@datalap.aamit.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds... by Per Wigren
1 On 00:57 Wed 26 Mar , Per Wigren wrote:
2 > We need a method to rename and move ebuilds... For example
3 > dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin does not belong in dev-perl... It really should be
4 > net-mail/spamassassin instead.. I don't think anyone using spamassassin cares
5 > that it is written in Perl...
6 > Another one is x11-themes/redhat-artwork which should be called bluecurve
7 > instead... Yes, that one is my fault because I submitted it as redhat-artwork
8 > a long time ago.. ;) But anyway.. How about a special variable in the
9 > ebuilds called OBSOLETES?
10 > An example:
11 > We move dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52.ebuild to
12 > net-mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-2,52,ebuild and add the line:
13 > OBSOLETES="dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin"
14 >
15 > A user who has Mail-SpamAssassin installed and run "emerge -u world" would
16 > then "upgrade" dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin to net-mail/spamassassin..
17 >
18 > This could also be used in other places.. Example:
19 >
20 > net-www/galeon-1.3.0.ebuild: (when it is released)
21 > OBSOLETES="<=net-www/galeon-cvs-20030324"
22 >
23 >
24 > Does this sound sane? ;)
25 > Maybe it's already implemented in some way? I admit it was a LONG time ago I
26 > wanted this functionality last time, but it wasn't implemented by then...
27 >
28 > Regards,
29 > Per Wigren
30 >
31 > --
32 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
33 >
34 A long time ago I heard that people could not call it Bluecurve as
35 Redhat has a copyright on that.
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds... Per Wigren <wigren@××××.se>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds... Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net>