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On Tuesday 06 May 2003 16:50, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> If a package doesn't have a version in it's name, then we have a problem |
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> concerning updating: Portage will think that the sourcecode in |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles (the old tarball) is the recent one and will install |
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> it. |
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> One solution would be to rename the tarball personally and put it on |
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> ibiblio. However, some tools prohibit distribution of the sourcecode, so |
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> this solution isn't 100% safe. |
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> Any thoughts on how to handle this? |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16222 |
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I personally think that we need to look into providing more finegrained |
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distfiles. The best proposal I heard up til now is name rewriting. An ebuild |
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specifies how a distfile is to be called. Portage then needs to be smart |
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enough to use the renamed file from the mirrors, but the normal one from the |
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main repository. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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