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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange version numbers
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:16:54
Message-Id: 4053178D.2040804@charter.net
1 Thanks. Before I posted I went back to the docs and checked the scheme
2 but couldn't find anything to cover this weird case. I'll try the
3 beta1102. If worst comes to worst I'll just do with the beta11 version
4 until they release something that fits.
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6 Thanks.
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11 Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
12 > Thanks. Before I posted I went back to the docs and checked the scheme
13 > but couldn't find anything to cover this weird case. I'll try the
14 > beta1102. If worst comes to worst I'll just do with the beta11 version
15 > until they release something that fits.
16 >
17 > Thanks.
18 >
19 >
20 > Jason Stubbs wrote:
21 >
22 >> On Saturday 13 March 2004 14:02, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
23 >>
24 >>> How do I specify a version of 0.9beta11.2 in the ebuild name?
25 >>
26 >>
27 >>
28 >> For this sort of case, you have a few options, but the easiest is
29 >> something like 0.9_beta1102. If upstream is really crazy with their
30 >> version numbers and all of a sudden comes out with 0.9beta11.2.1, this
31 >> breaks down though. beta11021 is bigger, but then what for beta12?
32 >>
33 >> Another option is to use the CVS like naming scheme. For example,
34 >> 0.9_beta20040214. This is the safest, but probably most confusing for
35 >> users.
36 >>
37 >> If/Once http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37406 get's
38 >> incorporated, you will be able to specify a version number of
39 >> 0.9_beta11_p2.
40 >>
41 >> Regards,
42 >> Jason Stubbs
43 >>
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