Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem: HOWTOs archive versions

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 30 July 2001 01:06, you wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:13:03AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > As for versioning: I believe (I'm still waiting for the LDP guy's
> > confirmation) that an index file inside the archive is always
> > autogenerated when the archive is autogenerated. We can use its mtime
> > data to add a timestamp as an ebuild version.  Is there a problem with
> > setting/overriding PV from within an ebuild?
>
> Yes.  The best way is to grab one, change the name and upload it to
> ibiblio.org. I'm not going to be hacking at Portage to deal with archives
> with no version numbers; the problem is with the archive that doesn't have
> a version number, not Portage.
>
> BTW, you may want to suggest that their archive generation script be
> upgraded so that the generated archives have an attached version number or
> date.

We have, and they agreed. Now there are new problems. See my post on the 
overriding/disabling checksums thread.
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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel