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* [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds...
@ 2003-03-25 23:57 Per Wigren
  2003-03-26  0:16 ` Jon Portnoy
  2003-03-26 23:28 ` Abhishek Amit
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Per Wigren @ 2003-03-25 23:57 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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

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2003-03-25 23:57 [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds Per Wigren
2003-03-26  0:16 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-03-26 23:28 ` Abhishek Amit
2003-03-27  5:20   ` Per Wigren
2003-03-27 12:59     ` Alastair Tse
2003-03-27 13:00     ` leahcim
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