From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HgcY9-0005Ta-S4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:08:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3P86aB9027943; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:06:36 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3P81m3Z019977 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:01:49 GMT Received: from phi.witten.lan (p83.129.4.172.tisdip.tiscali.de [83.129.4.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381B464FCC; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:01:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Danny van Dyk Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:57:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Ciaran McCreesh References: <200704242111.44663.kugelfang@gentoo.org> <20070424193148.GO7810@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20070425085118.7d6948ba@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <20070425085118.7d6948ba@snowflake> X-Face: =?utf-8?q?57Z3foFdBj=3BKdmU=5EFM=2Eec=5C4=7BQf/F6=25ePh=5C=5DM=5EaXPX*=5D?= =?utf-8?q?J5S=7CM=7E+vR=3F=24iW=5Cn44=5E2sguPTOtw=0A=09fe+7gKTm*!OXGQPYqML?= =?utf-8?q?=7CL1ezSI3-=27E=25zxZigvAK?=>3$?~'4IPBoi\H2)pV6U(26V@ =?utf-8?q?jq=7CAIp=0A=09yY?=>'!D}EOi=Q+-|CIh-d4riWfZZ">G.Rj!}78kX$8Zt0:epNWTo[{_/zJb< =?utf-8?q?Ud=2Eon=7EprEW*=0A=09tIvqI=7B+e=3AgMC?= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704250957.39745.kugelfang@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 50d46346-f786-4448-95eb-71103b6ae9e9 X-Archives-Hash: 8f599910a2b1e26b21254295976aa115 Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:31:48 -0700 > > "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > > printf "_rc%d%04d%02d%02d",$RC,$YEAR,$MONTH,$DAY > > Funnily enough... If we're going by PMS drafts, that's illegal > whereas multiple suffixes are legal. PMS permits multiple suffixes, > but limits any individual version component to eight digits to avoid > problems with integer overflows, floating point precision etc. And when PMS specifies that together with a proper way to compare multiple suffixes there will be no problem. This Council decission was to avoid 'existing practice' that might be necessary to include in PMS. Danny -- Danny van Dyk Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list