Subject: Re: Use of ${PKGNAME} can lead to confusion
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/09/2005 20:42:20
Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>>> Use ${PKGNAME:C/nb${PKGREVISON}//} or so in the right place,
>>> i.e. probably where DISTDIR or so is define.
>>
>>
>> And why shouldn't I use ${PKGNAME_NOREV} instead of the (longer, 
>> harder to read, more error-prone) ${PKGNAME:C/nb${PKGREVISION}//}?
>>
>> error-prone, because your try would strip nb${PKGREVISION} even if 
>> ${PKGNAME} does not end in it.
> 
> 
> If you want to define an internal variable for that -> i couldn't care 
> less, as long as it doesn't affect pkg Makefile.

PKGNAME_NOREV already exists. Since years.

Roland