On 10/9/05, Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Roland Illig wrote:
> > PKGNAME_NOREV already exists. Since years.
>
> Then maybe use it to define DIST_SUBDIR (or whatever that variable's
> responsible for the problem you raised). What's the matter?

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=3D foo_1.0
PKGNAME=3D ${DISTNAME:S/_/-/}
PKGREVISION=3D 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 :-)

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