On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:15:55PM -0600, Steve Dibb wrote:
> >   media-viode/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4
> >   media-video/transcode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1
> MPlayer needs to be fixed, though it's in the same boat as transcode ...
> it's a release candidate plus a patch level.
> 
> Multimedia apps are infamous for rarely having releases, so we are stuck
> with SVN snapshots.
> 
> What we really need is a suffix for RCS systems, since that's what they
> really are.
> 
> However, if anyone has any suggestions for naming schemes in the meantime,
> I'm all ears.
I was one of the council members to weigh in on this, and the quick
improvement that I came up with, was going for a naming scheme like so:

printf "_rc%d%04d%02d%02d",$RC,$YEAR,$MONTH,$DAY

Set the date portions to zero in other builds.

Alternatively, follow the example of any ebuild that uses a dated
patchset, and just have the date of the patchset in the ebuild, and only
increment $PR singly.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member
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