Re: [gentoo-dev] Annoying X.Org tarball naming (and how to deal with it)

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
| I'd appreciate some ideas better than what I've come up with so far to
| deal with the very strange X.Org release naming.
|
| When modular tarballs are part of a full X.Org release (7.0, 7.1, etc),
| then they are named PN-PV-XORG_RELEASE.tar.(gz|bz2) and S matches. When
| modular tarballs are independently released outside a full X.Org
| release, they are named the standard way -- PN-PV.tar.(gz|bz2), same
for S.

Through working with upstream and other distributors, we've come to the
conclusion that having upstream provide both versioned and unversioned
tarballs is the best solution and avoids this issue entirely.

Take-home point: When upstream does annoying crap, talk to them about
it. And when they disagree, find some friends and talk to them again.

Thanks,
Donnie
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