>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote:
>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo/foo-1a_live.ebuild
>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a-live.ebuild
> you probably mean:
> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a.live.ebuild
No, I mean what I had written, namely to use an underscore as
separator, i.e., "_live". But when the version is just "live" alone,
one would suppress the underscore for aesthetic reasons, i.e. instead
of "foo-1a-_live" it would be "foo-1a-live".
> but how would their vdb or binpkg names be unique?
> vdb for example:
> app-misc/foo-1a_live for app-misc/foo
PN=foo, PV=1a_live => app-misc/foo-1a_live
> app-misc/foo-1a_live for app-misc/foo-1a
PN=foo-1a, PV=live => app-misc/foo-1a-live
> am I missing something?
Everything is easy, if you keep the following rule in mind:
>> With our current versioning scheme the rule is very simple: ${P} is
>> split into ${PN} and ${PV} at the last hyphen. This can be done in
>> a straight forward way by regexp matching, and I would really hate
>> to lose this nice property.
> I don't understand why this property is important. Can you please
> explain?
See above, it automatically avoids any ambiguities in splitting P into
PN and PV. And look at function "pkgsplit" in Portage: It can just
treat PV as an opaque string.
What would be the advantage to use a hyphen instead of an underscore?
Ulrich
