On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:16, Marius Mauch wrote: > Check your mail archives for the old discussions about distfile name > mangling (short version: a lot of stuff relies on distfile-name == > basename(src_uri), also if at all this would only be a long term > solution due to compat issues involved).
For this reason a package might just specify a DIST_PREFIX. This would indicate a subdirectory in DISTDIR where the package is stored. When the package is merged, the files are copied from this directory instead of the DISTDIR directory. As the copy is already made, this behaviour should not be problematic. This does however solve 99% of the file name problems. The DIST_PREFIX value could be anything, with empty being the feature disabled, allowing for the much-wanted sharing of files between packages. Even better is that this will even work with portage versions that do not support this feature. They will just store everything in DIST_PREFIX as it is now. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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