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Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and |
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> one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so |
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> they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could |
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> have icedtea-1.2:1.6.ebuildN and icedtea-1.2:1.7.ebuildN. This |
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> particular situation can be worked around of course but it might also be |
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> better to keep the slot in the file name any way because I often find |
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> myself needing to know the slot of an ebuild (adjutrix -k of course |
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> already does this for me quite nicely). |
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Debian-style epochs are a _much_ cleaner solution: |
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http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version |
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(eix does quite nicely at displaying slots, too.) |
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