[gentoo-dev] Problem: HOWTOs archive versions

[Dan Armak]

Hi all,

This is not meant to revive the versioning question.

The various app-doc/howto ebuilds (by pm) have no versions, because the 
standard howto archives have none. The ebuilds define version 1.0 
arbitrarily, but they always download the newest archive with the same 
address and filename.

Do you think we should manage this situation in a better way?

Should we try to work with setting the version dynamically at merge time to 
the archive's timestamp?


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer
Matan, Israel