Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

["marduk" <marduk@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique"
<imran@rafique.org> said:
> I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant.
> 
> Summary
> -------
> Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without
> changing the
> ebuild version number?

Unfortunately yes ;-).  This also has been a problem for
packages.gentoo.org code, because I basically have to make a series of
assumptions as to when an ebuild is considered "new" or "updated". 
Originally I thought I could just just look at the timestamps on the
ebuilds, but that turned out to be a very bad determiniation of when an
ebuild has changed.  Then I thought revision numbers, but that's
innacurate too.  Basically now it comes down to looking at the current
ebuild in portage and comparing it to the last time I looked at it. 
It's much more expensive, because you have to look at *every* ebuild,
not just "ebuilds changed since x date/time" or "ebuilds newer than
version y".  Oh no, now I sound like I'm ranting ;-)

-m
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