On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> The "problem" is that the current PKGNAME is difficult to understand.
> You can define it to a specific value in your package and pkgsrc will
> internally change it to append the revision number.
>
> As Roland said, if you have something like:
>
> DISTNAME= foo_1.0
> PKGNAME= ${DISTNAME:S/_/-/}
> PKGREVISION= 1
>
> What's the value of PKGNAME?  foo-1.0?  No!  It's foo-1.0nb1.
>
> I.e., it's wired that you have to use PKGNAME_NOREV to get the exact
> value you explicitly set to PKGNAME.  It should be the other way around
> (leave PKGNAME as is, and have a variable that is set by pkgsrc to
> whatever it needs).
>
> Or at least, that's what I understood :-)

Well, maybe then the effect(s) of PKGREVISION should  be implemented 
different. I agree that the situation you describe is not obvious.


  - Hubert