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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] Version Naming Clarification
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:09:40
Message-Id: 46684898.6070805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] Version Naming Clarification by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:32:40 -0400
3 > Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >> Doug Goldstein wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> Currently in the tree we have sys-fs/ntfs3g. However the proper
9 >>> upstream name and name referenced in every single doc in the world
10 >>> is "ntfs-3g". I tried to rename the package however, Portage does
11 >>> not let me since it is invalid naming. marienz and genone informed
12 >>> me it's invalid with PMS as well.
13 >>>
14 >>> The version I was trying to add is ntfs-3g-1.516. Logically Portage
15 >>> and PMS should only consider any data after the LAST - as the
16 >>> version information.
17 >>>
18 >> Would this cause problems anywhere if we had the following?
19 >>
20 >> sys-fs/ntfs/ntfs-3g.ebuild
21 >> and
22 >> sys-fs/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g-1.516.ebuild
23 >>
24 >
25 > Thing is: if you see sys-fs/ntfs-3g, is that an atom or a CPV? You
26 > don't know unless you actually check the tree.
27 >
28 > Marius
29 >
30 >
31 I thought that was the whole point of =. That identifies CPV instead of
32 an atom.
33 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] Version Naming Clarification "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>