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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem: HOWTOs archive versions
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:14:13PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is not meant to revive the versioning question.
> 
> The various app-doc/howto ebuilds (by pm) have no versions, because the 
> standard howto archives have none. The ebuilds define version 1.0 
> arbitrarily, but they always download the newest archive with the same 
> address and filename.
> 
> Do you think we should manage this situation in a better way?
> 
> Should we try to work with setting the version dynamically at merge time to 
> the archive's timestamp?

Best solution for right now is to create our own version of the archive with
a timestamp, and write the linuxdoc people to create these archives with a 
timestamp (20010728, for example) as the version number:

linux-howto-20010728.tar.gz

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.