Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] qfile assumes category names contain a hyphen

[Ned Ludd]

On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:55 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 16 April 2009 19:05:46 Ned Ludd wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:50 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:27 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:59:58 Ned Ludd wrote:
> > > > > There is also a bug with atom parsing iirc on 32bit platforms. gradm
> > > > > was the test case. Think we need to change from int to long.
> > > >
> > > > the code is documented as having 64bit limitations for any specific
> > > > component. the last release doesnt have the updated work i did in qatom
> > > > to handle the latest atom spec though, and that includes moving from
> > > > 32bit to 64bit for components ...
> > >
> > > Sounds good.
> > >
> > > > > Maybe another with -rX parsing.
> > > >
> > > > if you're thinking of the open bug, that's an eprefix specific
> > > > extension. they turned the X in -rX into a floating point #.  which
> > > > isnt supported currently.
> > >
> > > I don't think that was it. But I can't recall well enough off the top of
> > > my head the problem that somebody pointed out to me one day on irc while
> > > I was probably too busy.
> >
> > The error was pointed out to me again today on irc by jmbsvicetto and
> > hoffie, which reminded me of what I had forgot before in this thread.
> >
> > The problem was/is that qpkg is not handling -rX extensions properly.
>
> you'll have to be more specific.  like i said, -rX extensions are a prefix
> extension and not part of the standard tree and/or spec.  i'm not going to
> implement every random thing that someone feels like adding.
> -mike


Heh. I don't think you understand the problem yet. Not a feature
request.. It's a real bug/regression. See the bug# that jmbsvicetto
filed this morn about it.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/266646