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acreal
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 Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:33 am Post subject: Composed version number [SOLVED] |
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Hi,
i tried to make an ebuild for wmii as stated here.
The problem is that wmii version is wmii-1-current which seems to trouble portage, so when calling my ebuild file wmii-1-current.ebuild and defining SRC_URL as "http://website/${P}.tar.gz" it says that the ebuild has no version.
Problem resolved by the dirty trick of using a wmii-1.ebuild file and the declaration of SRC_URL="http://site/${P}-current.tar.gz" which, if i get this right, would install package wmii-1 in version -current. right ?
So, what i don't understand is why the original file i started from (/usr/portage/x11-wm/wmi-10.ebuild) doesn't have this problem. Must be missing something...
Anyway, my question is is there a way to define a "composed string" (-1-current) as the version number ?
Sorry for the dumb question. 
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TrueDFX
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:38 am Post subject: Re: Composed version number |
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| acreal wrote: | Hi,
i tried to make an ebuild for wmii as stated here.
The problem is that wmii version is wmii-1-current which seems to trouble portage, so when calling my ebuild file wmii-1-current.ebuild and defining SRC_URL as "http://website/${P}.tar.gz" it says that the ebuild has no version. |
| Code: | Versions are normally made up of two or three numbers separated by periods,
such as 1.2 or 4.5.2. This string may be followed by a character such as
1.2a or 4.5.2z. Note that this letter is not meant to indicate alpha,
beta, etc... status. For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha,
_beta, _pre (pre-release), _rc (release candidate), or _p (patch). This
means for the 3rd pre-release of a package, you would use something like
1.2_pre3. |
(From man 5 ebuild) That's all you can do with version numbers.
| Quote: | | Problem resolved by the dirty trick of using a wmii-1.ebuild file and the declaration of SRC_URL="http://site/${P}-current.tar.gz" which, if i get this right, would install package wmii-1 in version -current. right ? |
That's not a dirty trick, that's how you're supposed to handle it. Portage doesn't care about the '-current' and ignores it. As far as portage cares, you're installing wmii-1.
| Quote: | | So, what i don't understand is why the original file i started from (/usr/portage/x11-wm/wmi-10.ebuild) doesn't have this problem. Must be missing something... |
10 is a valid version number in portage, so nothing special is needed.
| Quote: | | Anyway, my question is is there a way to define a "composed string" (-1-current) as the version number ? |
Nope, sorry.
PS: It's SRC_URI, not SRC_URL. |
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acreal
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:52 am Post subject: |
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But how do i make portage find the /var/tmp/portage/wmii-1/work/wmii-1-current/ then ? Shall i use something like MY_V="current" or .... ?
thanks a lot...
PS: Oops, first time messing with portage :) but you probably already guessed that ;) |
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TrueDFX
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:59 am Post subject: |
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You can do this: | Code: | MY_P=${P}-current
S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P} |
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acreal
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:40 am Post subject: |
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Works like a charm, thanks !
Didn't look that clear to me in the ebuild howto.
Have a nice day.
ps: you should try wmi  |
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