Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 11/05/10 19:08 CST: > The package tarball name is webkit-1.2.5.tar.gz, but the title in the > book is WebKitGTK+-1.2.5. I think the name in the book should match the > name in the tarball.
I disagree. There is ample precedent in the book for having a different name of a tarball than what the upstream developers wish to have their package called. Yes, it is atypical and unusual. But there are many packages that do not have identical package names and tarball names. HTML-Tidy is a perfect example. Of course, we now roll our own, but for years the upstream devs released a tarball called tidy-version.version, yet the package is known as HTML Tidy. Another example is PCI-Utilities, yet the tarball is pciutils. I could go on and on with examples. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 19:16:00 up 4 days, 1:10, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.18, 0.27 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
