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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:40:11
Message-Id: 21454.52259.945880.262793@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Martin Vaeth
1 >>>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote:
2
3 > PF has to be filled correctly, of course:
4 > The versions foo-1 and foo-1-r0 are identical according to PMS
5 > and should thus lead to the same $PF.
6
7 This is not so. These versions are equal in comparision, so they
8 cannot be in the tree at the same time. However, PF will be different
9 for them.
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11 Note that this also occurs elsewhere. For example, versions 1.0.2 and
12 1.000.2 cound as equal, but again PF will be different.
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14 > If this is currently not happening in portage, this is a bug
15 > which should be fixed, independently of whether minor revisions
16 > are introduced or not.
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18 Portage behaves as PMS specifies. PF is derived from the ebuild's
19 name, without any "normalisation" to a canonical version.
20
21 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>