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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:22:55
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0903221122q3018b205ye60468b7ee4098bc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV} by Mounir Lamouri
1 On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Mounir Lamouri
2 <mounir.lamouri@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > Or just rename it ${PN}-bar.patch instead of ${P}-bar.patch if it is a
4 > patch for more than one ebuild version.
5 > But older ebuild has to be changed to make it works.
6 >
7
8 The ${PV} in the patch name is a quick indication of the age of a
9 patch, the gnome herd especially *encourages* this behavior.
10
11 --
12 ~Nirbheek Chauhan

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