Ryan Hill wrote:
So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has absolutely no correlation with the revision number of the upstream codebase. I'm sorry, but that's unacceptable. :/
You'd like to have the cflags and ldflags embedded in the name for the same reason?
If a user reports a bug in package-1.1_pre6, how do you determine what revision he has installed? How can you even tell it's an scm ebuild?
You can. The generated ebuild must have a reference to the checkout.
If I want to report a bug I find to upstream, how to I know what revision I have? Yes there are hacks like ESCM_LOGDIR, but they're different for every SCM and you have to opt-in to use them. Most people don't even know about them.
The generated ebuild contains pretty much everything you need to fill a bugreport.
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