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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage/distfiles/ name collisions
From:       Bart Verwilst <verwilst () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2002-09-25 14:29:17
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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 16:09, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
|| Twice in the last two days I've had to deal with packaging distribution
|| 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 released 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 uri
|| like
|| /usr/portage/distfiles/http://... ?

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

Thanks!

-- 
Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium
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