* [gentoo-dev] Renaming ebuilds...
@ 2003-03-25 23:57 99% Per Wigren
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From: Per Wigren @ 2003-03-25 23:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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