Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 09:30:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/81824: [patch] Porters' Handbook: Document DISTVERSION Message-ID: <200506030730.j537UHYG072444@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Resent-Message-ID: <200506030740.j537e2HL086001@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 81824
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Porters' Handbook: Document DISTVERSION
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 03 07:40:01 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Volker Stolz
>Release: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Lehrstuhl für Informatik II; RWTH Aachen Universität
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD menelaos.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #23: Fri Jan 14 09:26:11 CET 2005 root@menelaos.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MENELAOS i386
>Description:
Document DISTVERSION
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- distversion.diff begins here ---
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.569
diff -u -r1.569 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 31 May 2005 20:02:17 -0000 1.569
+++ book.sgml 3 Jun 2005 07:27:01 -0000
@@ -758,7 +758,8 @@
gzip'd tarball named something like
<filename>foozolix-1.2.tar.gz</filename>? If so, you can go on
to the next step. If not, you should look at overriding any of
- the <makevar>DISTNAME</makevar>, <makevar>EXTRACT_CMD</makevar>,
+ the <makevar>DISTVERSION</makevar>, <makevar>DISTNAME</makevar>,
+ <makevar>EXTRACT_CMD</makevar>,
<makevar>EXTRACT_BEFORE_ARGS</makevar>,
<makevar>EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS</makevar>,
<makevar>EXTRACT_SUFX</makevar>, or <makevar>DISTFILES</makevar>
@@ -2096,7 +2097,7 @@
they can be downloaded from.</para>
<sect2>
- <title><makevar>DISTNAME</makevar></title>
+ <title><makevar>DISTVERSION/DISTNAME</makevar></title>
<para><makevar>DISTNAME</makevar> is the name of the port as
called by the authors of the software.
@@ -2110,6 +2111,43 @@
subdirectory named <makevar>WRKSRC</makevar>, which defaults
to <filename>work/<makevar>${DISTNAME}</makevar></filename>.</para>
+ <para>Some vendor's distribution names which do not fit into the
+ <literal>${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}</literal>-scheme can be handled
+ automatically by setting <makevar>DISTVERSION</makevar>.
+ <makevar>PORTVERSION</makevar> and <makevar>DISTNAME</makevar> will be
+ derived automatically, but can of course be overridden. The following
+ table lists some examples:</para>
+
+ <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
+ <tgroup cols="2">
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry><makevar>DISTVERSION</makevar></entry>
+ <entry><makevar>PORTVERSION</makevar></entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry>0.7.1d</entry>
+ <entry>0.7.1.d</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>10Alpha3</entry>
+ <entry>10.a3</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>3Beta7-pre2</entry>
+ <entry>3.b7.p2</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>8:f_17</entry>
+ <entry>8f.17</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
<note>
<para><makevar>PKGNAMEPREFIX</makevar> and
<makevar>PKGNAMESUFFIX</makevar> do not affect
--- distversion.diff ends here ---
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