From gentoo-dev  Wed Sep 25 14:29:17 2002
From: Bart Verwilst <verwilst () gentoo ! org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:29:17 +0000
To: gentoo-dev
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage/distfiles/ name collisions
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=103296422921473

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 16:09, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
|| Twice in the last two days I've had to deal with packaging distributio=
n
|| files that have source URIs with the same basenames (eg. I have two
|| packages that pull in examples.tar.gz, and a package that gets release=
d to
|| a version directory like ${PV}/package.tar.gz). Portage gets confused,
|| thinks I already have the file, then fails the checksum. Is there any =
way
|| to override the fetch behaviour in an ebuild, eg. to record the full u=
ri
|| like
|| /usr/portage/distfiles/http://... ?

No, you should report the packages that have those same versionless names=
 to=20
our bugzilla, so the dev can change the name of the package (adding a ver=
sion=20
or something), and put it on ibiblio directly.

Thanks!

--=20
Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium
_______________________________________________
gentoo-dev mailing list
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev