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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:16:28 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> I guess there's some non-trivial translation process needed. |
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> First I have to cut-off the Gentoo's internal patchlevel |
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> (aka. same upstream release, but updated ebuild), |
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Try atom, from portage-utils, then use cut or awk to select the third |
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item of output. |
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> then map |
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> the upstream's versioning schemes to my normalized one. |
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> *If* Gentoo strictly follows the upstream's versioning scheme |
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> and only adds some -r* for ebuild revisions, then the first step |
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> should be easy, |
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Gentoo follows upstream as closely as possible, but not when their |
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versioning breaks the Gentoo rules. For example, dovecot-1.1.rc8 becomes |
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dovecot-1.1_rc8. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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