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On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:10 pm, Gustavo Barbieri wrote: |
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> Categories are mixed: there is a net-www/apache and net-www/mod_* |
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> (apache modules), but there is a more convenient category www-apache/ |
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> for them. This is one example, there are more mistakes. There is any |
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> plan to fix them in next portage releases? |
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IIRC, net-www is an old category that should be www-* sometime in the future. |
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I believe this change was in a notice on the main site a while ago. |
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> Some packages use numbering version padded with zero, that's good to |
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> list with shell functions, but it's bad because you can't change them |
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> to numbers and them back to string. For example: |
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> mail-mta/nullmailer-1.00_rc7-r4. If you Convert it to integers, it |
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> becomes 1.0 and you can't map back to the ebuild. |
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Versions are *not* decimal numbers, but a set of three integers. Version 1.15 |
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is a higher version than 1.2. It might be seen as nitpicking, but "integers" |
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generally always refers to a whole number (1 or 2, not 1.3 or 2.4) |
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> Portage provides metadata.xml, cool. But it's hardly used :( |
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> metadata.xml seems to provide tags for maintainers, changelogs and |
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> long description, many (most?) packages don't use them. |
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They should. It's a semi-gradual process. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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