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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:33:29
Message-Id: 20060226212953.GH31848@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:19:40PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Side note: if the packages in question are fetch restricted, you're
3 > screwed, and will not be able to add them to the tree.
4 Actually, there is a solution for this, and it's reasonable logical.
5 Don't use the same name that upstream does for the files.
6
7 Simply tell the user to download X and place it in $DISTDIR renaming it
8 to X-foo-bar, where's you've chosen X-foo-bar to avoid conflicts.
9
10 --
11 Robin Hugh Johnson
12 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
13 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>