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From: "Alin Năstac" <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:19:37
Message-Id: 49C6D58E.4070604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV} by Ryan Hill
1 On 3/22/09 11:47 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:50:26 +0100
3 > Alin Năstac <mrness@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >> Please do not apply patches that have ${P} prefix in other ebuild
7 >> versions than ${PV}.
8 >> Is that hard to create a new patch with a proper name?
9 >>
10 >
11 > Um, why?
12 >
13 > I'm not having six identical patches with different version numbers in
14 > FILESDIR.
15 >
16 >
17 Fine, then remove $PV from patch name and use it in any ebuild version
18 you want. Or just decouple the patch version from the ebuild version
19 (foo-bar-r1.patch sounds OK to me).

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