On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'd appreciate some ideas better than what I've come up with so far to > deal with the very strange X.Org release naming. > > When modular tarballs are part of a full X.Org release (7.0, 7.1, etc), > then they are named PN-PV-XORG_RELEASE.tar.(gz|bz2) and S matches. When > modular tarballs are independently released outside a full X.Org > release, they are named the standard way -- PN-PV.tar.(gz|bz2), same for S. > > Dealing with this all in an automated fashion in x-modular.eclass is > somewhat difficult, and here's what I've come up with: > > A variable (XORG_PV), set by the ebuild, to tell _which_ release it's > part of when it is part of a full release. If it's set, that means (1) > it is part of a full release and (2) indicates which release it's part of. > > What does this mean for the future? All modular X ebuilds that are part > of a full release will require XORG_PV to be set. All modular X ebuilds > that aren't part of a full release will not require anything new. I'm > doing it this way because I expect there to be more packages that aren't > part of a full release than ones that are. > > Please give me your input on this. Seems fine to me. I hope you are right in your assumption about packages in full releases. > > Thanks, > Donnie > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDqjr2XVaO67S1rtsRAhlPAKCMvjj82U6sNPpVYsUOnKOsRwAF4QCgibKM > Ccs1TnSQbXI66BVpf4P8Ed4= > =NFr1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)