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From: Troy Dack <troy@××××××.com>
To: Gentoo Development List <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds w/o version numbers?
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:39:47
Message-Id: 1046691511.2112.6.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds w/o version numbers? by Michael Boman
1 On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 20:20, Michael Boman wrote:
2 > I am trying to package a commercial vendor's SDK as a ebuild, just
3 > for the sake of having everything I use in portage. No, the problem is
4 > that this particular vendor doesn't follow the standard OSS versioning
5 > scheme. The tarball I download has a name like:
6 >
7 > sdknamewithversion.architecture.tar.gz
8 >
9 > In other words:
10 >
11 > vedorsdk2.linux24.tar.gz
12 >
13 > And ofcourse they also fail to put a proper directory structure below
14 > that.. but that one I belive I can work around..
15 >
16 > But how would I write a ebuild that works with that? Or do I have to
17 > resolve to storing it locally and rename the tarball?
18 >
19
20 Name the ebuild:
21 foopackage-version.ebuild
22
23 Munge the SRC_URI like so:
24
25 SRC_URI="http:/stupidvendor/foopackage-${PV}-linux24.tar.gz"
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