From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:15:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22529.8391.559164.177245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <assp.0095184b07.8233118.FvyJLTn20Z@wlt>
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>>>>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, William L Thomson wrote:
> On Friday, October 14, 2016 1:36:20 PM EDT Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> I see no reason to specify a file naming convention like this in PMS.
>> This isn't really a technical problem, but rather a Gentoo policy
>> issue. Other repos/distros should be free to call their ebuilds
>> whatever they like.
> I was not sure if PMS was the right place. It may be better suited
> in the devmanual. Though both seem to say the same thing, just more
> verbose in devmanual than than PMS.
> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/
> The devmanual has the same info as in the PMS including on the suffix
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-300003.2
That section is about version suffixes (like _beta or _rc), not about
package names.
> Which is why I assumed PMS was the proper place. They seem to be the
> same at this time. None of it seemed Gentoo specific.
It doesn't affect operation of the package manager at all, so it
certainly doesn't belong in PMS.
If anything at all, it would be a naming convention specific to the
gentoo repository. Others' repositories can follow different rules.
Ulrich
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2016-10-14 17:05 [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 17:09 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-14 17:17 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 17:29 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-15 10:32 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-10-15 22:00 ` Austin English
2016-10-16 22:20 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 8:21 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-23 8:46 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-10-14 17:36 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-10-14 18:05 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 18:15 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2016-10-14 20:48 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 17:41 ` Brian Evans
2016-10-14 21:00 ` William Hubbs
2016-10-14 21:10 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 21:14 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-15 3:10 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-16 22:30 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 1:19 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-17 2:43 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 5:43 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-17 16:10 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-10-17 4:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-10-17 5:36 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-18 5:36 ` Duncan
2016-10-17 6:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2016-10-17 7:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-17 7:30 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 7:41 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 7:49 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 12:20 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-17 13:44 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 13:47 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 13:52 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 13:56 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 14:11 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 13:52 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-10-17 14:04 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 14:09 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-10-17 14:13 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 14:34 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 14:54 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-17 15:01 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-17 15:10 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 15:00 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-10-17 15:09 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 16:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-17 16:51 ` NP-Hardass
2016-10-17 8:46 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 13:39 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 15:02 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 7:37 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 7:40 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 13:40 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 17:09 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-17 17:25 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 8:29 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 13:32 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 15:18 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 15:48 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 16:08 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 16:18 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 17:34 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 20:03 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 20:34 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 20:43 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-18 15:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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