From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2082 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Mar 2003 23:28:26 -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 2498 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2003 23:28:26 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:28:20 -0800 From: Abhishek Amit To: Per Wigren Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030326232820.GA9138@datalap.aamit.com> Mail-Followup-To: Per Wigren , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org 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/1.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds... X-Archives-Salt: e8bcf578-168e-4eec-b8df-dba9e007e00d X-Archives-Hash: 27b415acbf24c73a67febe9f5c55eb43 On 00:57 Wed 26 Mar , 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 > A long time ago I heard that people could not call it Bluecurve as Redhat has a copyright on that. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list