Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:29:35 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jacs@gnome.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package names Message-ID: <199512111929.LAA00292@block.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 17:55:26 -0800." <199512090155.RAA14926@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) wrote:
> Hmm. Does anyone have an idea on how to include this information
> without the above problems?
Not necessarily endorsing this, but it seems reasonable enough...
The packages for the Debian/Linux distribution generally take the form of
NAME-ORIG_VERSION-DEBIAN_VERSION
with the basic idea being that NAME is the package name (e.g. xv or
Xaw3d), ORIG_VERSION is the version as defined by the package (e.g. 3.10a
or 1.2a) and "DEBIAN_VERSION" is a sequence number for the package/port
files. So, you would end up with a package called xv-3.10a-1 or
mtools-2.0.7-12 or whatever. They probably specify the set of characters
that are legitimate for each of those fields in the package name, but I
don't remember what the conventions are, offhand.
I don't think it'd be good to be renaming the ports directories or not
every time the port is updated, so I wouldn't include the package version
in the directory name. Could put it as a variable in the ports/Makefile
and include it in the package name generated by the Makefile?
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