Subject: Re: Valid package names
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/13/1999 04:09:08
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> I'm working on the source-code version of bladeenc, and not sure what
> the valid package name is. At the moment, I have:
>
> DISTNAME= bladeenc-082-src-stable-2
> PKGNAME= bladeenc-0.82pl2
>
> and pkglink gives a fatal on the "-0.82pl2" version. It's passes
> "-0.82" ok, but this is second patchlevel of 0.82. Based on some
> private mail from Hubert for the postfix package, I thought that
> "N.NNN-plN" was valid - is pkglint being too strict? Any hints?
I've just checked some package with pkglint-1.73 that I've set
PKGNAME= bladeenc-0.82pl2
and it worked fine for me. Indeed, the version you suggest is what looks
perfect to me. Maybe upgrade your pkglint?
- Hubert
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