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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:41:53 +0000, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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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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Sorry, I didn't follow gentoo news very much, I'll start to. |
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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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Yes, I know that. In my fast portage module I convert version to a |
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PackageVersion class, that split the version according to naming |
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policy, then I build a list of version numbers as integers and the |
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last element is a string, "" if no letter modifier or the letter |
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itself if there is one, like openssl. Then i have one suffix, |
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converted to a tuple of 2 integers, the first is the position of the |
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"alpha|pre|rc|..." order and the second is the modifier number. Then I |
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have the release version. |
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My problem was that if I convert: app-misc/gcal/gcal-3.01.ebuild, then |
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I have: (3,1) as version, back to string as "3.1" instead of "3.1". |
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To overcome this I keep the original version string and use the |
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numbers just to compare versions. |
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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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I did a lot of ebuilds but never realised of them! |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml doesn't mention that, |
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however http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml |
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does. Maybe people doen't care about it because it's not that evident |
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or required to accept the ebuild. |
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Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri |
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