On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:06:05 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:17:44PM -0700, Jason Chu wrote: > > > The reason - is only allowed in pkgname and nowhere else is a > > parsing issue. > > > > Take this as an example: foo-bar-1.0-08-9.tar.gz. Is that the > > package foo-bar with a version of 1.0-08 and a release of 9 or is > > the package foo with a version of bar-1.0 and a release 08-9 or is > > the package foo with a version bar and pkgrel of 1.0-08-9? It's too > > ambiguous. That's the reason behind the requirement. > Does anyone use a pkgrel that is not a number? > > When this would be convention, we could drop the annoying issue with > dashes in the pkgname and allow them in the next pacman release. > > Leslie >
Yes, we have used t's and s's in pkgrel. I suspect the x86_64 people might be using something like that in the pkgrel sometimes. I don't understand what the "annoying issue with dashes in the pkgname" is. If you're saying ensuring pkgrel is dashless will make it unambiguous, let's try again: foo-1-1.0-1.pkg.tar.gz is name foo-1 version 1.0 release 1 or name foo version 1-1.0 release 1. A more likely example is foo-beta-0.99-1.pkg.tar.gz. Is that foo-beta or beta-0.99? Jason
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