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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Annoying X.Org tarball naming (and how to deal with it)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:38:04
Message-Id: 43AA3AF6.6000903@gentoo.org
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4 I'd appreciate some ideas better than what I've come up with so far to
5 deal with the very strange X.Org release naming.
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7 When modular tarballs are part of a full X.Org release (7.0, 7.1, etc),
8 then they are named PN-PV-XORG_RELEASE.tar.(gz|bz2) and S matches. When
9 modular tarballs are independently released outside a full X.Org
10 release, they are named the standard way -- PN-PV.tar.(gz|bz2), same for S.
11
12 Dealing with this all in an automated fashion in x-modular.eclass is
13 somewhat difficult, and here's what I've come up with:
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15 A variable (XORG_PV), set by the ebuild, to tell _which_ release it's
16 part of when it is part of a full release. If it's set, that means (1)
17 it is part of a full release and (2) indicates which release it's part of.
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19 What does this mean for the future? All modular X ebuilds that are part
20 of a full release will require XORG_PV to be set. All modular X ebuilds
21 that aren't part of a full release will not require anything new. I'm
22 doing it this way because I expect there to be more packages that aren't
23 part of a full release than ones that are.
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25 Please give me your input on this.
26
27 Thanks,
28 Donnie
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