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Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: |
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> 2009/5/28 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>: |
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>>>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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>>>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo/foo-1a_live.ebuild |
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>>>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a-live.ebuild |
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>>> you probably mean: |
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>>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a.live.ebuild |
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>> No, I mean what I had written, namely to use an underscore as |
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>> separator, i.e., "_live". But when the version is just "live" alone, |
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>> one would suppress the underscore for aesthetic reasons, i.e. instead |
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>> of "foo-1a-_live" it would be "foo-1a-live". |
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>>> but how would their vdb or binpkg names be unique? |
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>>> vdb for example: |
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>>> app-misc/foo-1a_live for app-misc/foo |
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>> PN=foo, PV=1a_live => app-misc/foo-1a_live |
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>> |
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>>> app-misc/foo-1a_live for app-misc/foo-1a |
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>> PN=foo-1a, PV=live => app-misc/foo-1a-live |
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>> |
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>>> am I missing something? |
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>> Everything is easy, if you keep the following rule in mind: |
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>>>> With our current versioning scheme the rule is very simple: ${P} is |
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>>>> split into ${PN} and ${PV} at the last hyphen. This can be done in |
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>>>> a straight forward way by regexp matching, and I would really hate |
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>>>> to lose this nice property. |
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>>> I don't understand why this property is important. Can you please |
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>>> explain? |
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>> See above, it automatically avoids any ambiguities in splitting P into |
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>> PN and PV. And look at function "pkgsplit" in Portage: It can just |
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>> treat PV as an opaque string. |
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>> What would be the advantage to use a hyphen instead of an underscore? |
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> Mainly the thing you observed yourself - foo_live is a bit |
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> inconsistent with current versions. |
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Ulrich is proposing foo-live if live is the entire version, foo_live is not a |
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legal `package name and version'. (It could be a package name though.) |
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> The case you mention can be avoided with another restriction in PMS. |
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> Buut we might as well go all the way and change the version separator |
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> to -- or something, which would be the most flexible. |
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That would also be a good solution though we don't seem to need it yet. It would |
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also entail compatibility issues. |
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Marijn |
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- -- |
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If you cannot read my mind, then listen to what I say. |
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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode |
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