Re: [gentoo-dev] Annoying X.Org tarball naming (and how to deal with it)

[Ferris McCormick]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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> I'd appreciate some ideas better than what I've come up with so far to
> deal with the very strange X.Org release naming.
>
> When modular tarballs are part of a full X.Org release (7.0, 7.1, etc),
> then they are named PN-PV-XORG_RELEASE.tar.(gz|bz2) and S matches. When
> modular tarballs are independently released outside a full X.Org
> release, they are named the standard way -- PN-PV.tar.(gz|bz2), same for S.
>
> Dealing with this all in an automated fashion in x-modular.eclass is
> somewhat difficult, and here's what I've come up with:
>
> A variable (XORG_PV), set by the ebuild, to tell _which_ release it's
> part of when it is part of a full release. If it's set, that means (1)
> it is part of a full release and (2) indicates which release it's part of.
>
> What does this mean for the future? All modular X ebuilds that are part
> of a full release will require XORG_PV to be set. All modular X ebuilds
> that aren't part of a full release will not require anything new. I'm
> doing it this way because I expect there to be more packages that aren't
> part of a full release than ones that are.
>
> Please give me your input on this.

Seems fine to me.  I hope you are right in your assumption about
packages in full releases.

>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)