On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:43:33 Alec Warner wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav <l...@kraav.com> wrote: >> > i'd be really happy if someone took care of >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 :> >> > >> > "include more info about binpkg in file name" >> >> That is great, but its not a 6 month project... > > is it though ? i'm inclined to mark INVALID. hijacking filenames for > metadata > is a tuuuuuuuuuuurrible idea.
I agree. It's along the same lines as only using file extensions for determining the filetype (and we all know how that turned out...). It *does* have the advantage of being really fast, though. Nevertheless, the basic bug is about changing the distfile repository format in such a way that a single repo can contain several distfiles built with differing build conditions. Putting metadata in the filename is only one way of ensuring that. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
