* Re: [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds...
@ 2003-03-26 23:28 99% ` Abhishek Amit
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From: Abhishek Amit @ 2003-03-26 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Per Wigren; +Cc: gentoo-dev
On 00:57 Wed 26 Mar , Per Wigren wrote:
> We need a method to rename and move ebuilds... For example
> dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin does not belong in dev-perl... It really should be
> net-mail/spamassassin instead.. I don't think anyone using spamassassin cares
> that it is written in Perl...
> Another one is x11-themes/redhat-artwork which should be called bluecurve
> instead... Yes, that one is my fault because I submitted it as redhat-artwork
> a long time ago.. ;) But anyway.. How about a special variable in the
> ebuilds called OBSOLETES?
> An example:
> We move dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52.ebuild to
> net-mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-2,52,ebuild and add the line:
> OBSOLETES="dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin"
>
> A user who has Mail-SpamAssassin installed and run "emerge -u world" would
> then "upgrade" dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin to net-mail/spamassassin..
>
> This could also be used in other places.. Example:
>
> net-www/galeon-1.3.0.ebuild: (when it is released)
> OBSOLETES="<=net-www/galeon-cvs-20030324"
>
>
> Does this sound sane? ;)
> Maybe it's already implemented in some way? I admit it was a LONG time ago I
> wanted this functionality last time, but it wasn't implemented by then...
>
> Regards,
> Per Wigren
>
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>
A long time ago I heard that people could not call it Bluecurve as
Redhat has a copyright on that.
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