From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18204 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Mar 2003 00:16:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2235 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2003 00:16:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:16:22 -0500 From: Jon Portnoy To: Per Wigren Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030326001622.GA15849@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <200303260057.43296.wigren@home.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303260057.43296.wigren@home.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds... X-Archives-Salt: b5f960db-d8c6-4326-aeff-bcbe6c5033f9 X-Archives-Hash: 10916200491a909d76651f1f1109a9cd This is actually already implemented. Check out /usr/portage/profiles/updates/* On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:57:41AM +0100, Per Wigren wrote: > We need a method to rename and move ebuilds... For example > dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin does not belong in dev-perl... It really should be > net-mail/spamassassin instead.. I don't think anyone using spamassassin cares > that it is written in Perl... > Another one is x11-themes/redhat-artwork which should be called bluecurve > instead... Yes, that one is my fault because I submitted it as redhat-artwork > a long time ago.. ;) But anyway.. How about a special variable in the > ebuilds called OBSOLETES? > An example: > We move dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52.ebuild to > net-mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-2,52,ebuild and add the line: > OBSOLETES="dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin" > > A user who has Mail-SpamAssassin installed and run "emerge -u world" would > then "upgrade" dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin to net-mail/spamassassin.. > > This could also be used in other places.. Example: > > net-www/galeon-1.3.0.ebuild: (when it is released) > OBSOLETES="<=net-www/galeon-cvs-20030324" > > > Does this sound sane? ;) > Maybe it's already implemented in some way? I admit it was a LONG time ago I > wanted this functionality last time, but it wasn't implemented by then... > > Regards, > Per Wigren > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- Jon Portnoy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list