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From: Jochen Maes <sejo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:00:00
Message-Id: 43FF8E04.9020103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 >Two ways this one can occur.
4 >
5 >Way the first: foo-1.0 has a file in SRC_URI called foo.pdf. Then
6 >foo-1.1 comes along, and has a different foo.pdf.
7 >
8 >Way the second: foo-1.0 has a file called examples-1.0.tar.bz2. bar-1.0
9 >also has a file called examples-1.0.tar.bz2.
10 >
11 >To avoid this, ensure that your packages use versioned SRC_URI
12 >component names, and that the name part is something that's reasonably
13 >likely to be unique (e.g. includes the package name).
14 >
15 >
16 >
17 this gives problems on a number off packages... i'm not pro...
18
19 >Side note: if the packages in question are fetch restricted, you're
20 >screwed, and will not be able to add them to the tree.
21 >
22 >Current offenders shall be receiving bugs shortly, since That Which
23 >Shall Not Be Named now checks for this.
24 >
25 >
26 >
27
28
29 --
30 "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends"
31 "Ne humanus crede"
32
33 Jochen Maes
34 Gentoo Linux
35 Gentoo Belgium
36 http://sejo.be
37 http://gentoo.be
38 http://gentoo.org

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