* Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision
@ 2006-02-27 10:05 99% ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2006-02-27 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.
Paul
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