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* Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision
  @ 2006-02-28 14:16 99%     ` Marius Mauch
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From: Marius Mauch @ 2006-02-28 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw
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Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:29, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:19:40PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>
>>>Side note: if the packages in question are fetch restricted, you're
>>>screwed, and will not be able to add them to the tree.
>>
>>Actually, there is a solution for this, and it's reasonable logical.
>>Don't use the same name that upstream does for the files.
>>
>>Simply tell the user to download X and place it in $DISTDIR renaming it
>>to X-foo-bar, where's you've chosen X-foo-bar to avoid conflicts.
> 
> 
> Is there any valid reason that we can't have portage do this 
> automatically. This particular way is very user-un-friendly.

Check your mail archives for the old discussions about distfile name 
mangling (short version: a lot of stuff relies on distfile-name == 
basename(src_uri), also if at all this would only be a long term 
solution due to compat issues involved).

Marius
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