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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:16, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Check your mail archives for the old discussions about distfile name |
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> mangling (short version: a lot of stuff relies on distfile-name == |
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> basename(src_uri), also if at all this would only be a long term |
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> solution due to compat issues involved). |
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For this reason a package might just specify a DIST_PREFIX. This would |
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indicate a subdirectory in DISTDIR where the package is stored. When the |
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package is merged, the files are copied from this directory instead of |
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the DISTDIR directory. As the copy is already made, this behaviour should |
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not be problematic. This does however solve 99% of the file name |
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problems. The DIST_PREFIX value could be anything, with empty being the |
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feature disabled, allowing for the much-wanted sharing of files between |
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packages. |
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Even better is that this will even work with portage versions that do not |
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support this feature. They will just store everything in DIST_PREFIX as |
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it is now. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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