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From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir.lamouri@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:24:28
Message-Id: 3201269c0903221024y131ac9d7gaf2b380ea4518f77@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV} by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, mrness wrote:
3 >
4 >> Please do not apply patches that have ${P} prefix in other ebuild
5 >> versions than ${PV}.
6 >> Is that hard to create a new patch with a proper name?
7 >
8 > And multiply number and total size of files in ${FILESDIR}?
9 >
10 > Ulrich
11 >
12 >
13
14 Or just rename it ${PN}-bar.patch instead of ${P}-bar.patch if it is a
15 patch for more than one ebuild version.
16 But older ebuild has to be changed to make it works.
17
18 Mounir

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