From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14674 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 03:41:26 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Nov 2004 03:41:26 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYFwE-0005eD-3A for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:41:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 406 invoked by uid 89); 28 Nov 2004 03:41:24 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 15221 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 03:41:22 +0000 From: Luke-Jr To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:41:53 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <9ef20ef3041127151046107fb5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9ef20ef3041127151046107fb5@mail.gmail.com> IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xD53E9583 Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411280341.54536.luke-jr@utopios.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Current portage well designed, but badly used X-Archives-Salt: a619f1f8-8245-43ff-985c-c8268de4fb47 X-Archives-Hash: 73399a986f172b05b7e42f20cbd3cc06 On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:10 pm, Gustavo Barbieri wrote: > Categories are mixed: there is a net-www/apache and net-www/mod_* > (apache modules), but there is a more convenient category www-apache/ > for them. This is one example, there are more mistakes. There is any > plan to fix them in next portage releases? IIRC, net-www is an old category that should be www-* sometime in the future. I believe this change was in a notice on the main site a while ago. > > Some packages use numbering version padded with zero, that's good to > list with shell functions, but it's bad because you can't change them > to numbers and them back to string. For example: > mail-mta/nullmailer-1.00_rc7-r4. If you Convert it to integers, it > becomes 1.0 and you can't map back to the ebuild. Versions are *not* decimal numbers, but a set of three integers. Version 1.15 is a higher version than 1.2. It might be seen as nitpicking, but "integers" generally always refers to a whole number (1 or 2, not 1.3 or 2.4) > > Portage provides metadata.xml, cool. But it's hardly used :( > metadata.xml seems to provide tags for maintainers, changelogs and > long description, many (most?) packages don't use them. They should. It's a semi-gradual process. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list