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From: Bart Verwilst <verwilst@g.o>
To: Chris Bainbridge <C.J.Bainbridge@×××××.uk>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage/distfiles/ name collisions
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:29:20
Message-Id: 200209251629.17610.verwilst@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage/distfiles/ name collisions by Chris Bainbridge
1 On Wednesday 25 September 2002 16:09, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
2 || Twice in the last two days I've had to deal with packaging distribution
3 || files that have source URIs with the same basenames (eg. I have two
4 || packages that pull in examples.tar.gz, and a package that gets released to
5 || a version directory like ${PV}/package.tar.gz). Portage gets confused,
6 || thinks I already have the file, then fails the checksum. Is there any way
7 || to override the fetch behaviour in an ebuild, eg. to record the full uri
8 || like
9 || /usr/portage/distfiles/http://... ?
10
11 No, you should report the packages that have those same versionless names to
12 our bugzilla, so the dev can change the name of the package (adding a version
13 or something), and put it on ibiblio directly.
14
15 Thanks!
16
17 --
18 Bart Verwilst
19 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
20 Gent, Belgium

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Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage/distfiles/ name collisions Chris Bainbridge <C.J.Bainbridge@×××××.uk>