On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:44:12AM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:
> The more I think about it, the more I think that %n should be used for the
> truncated name. That currently shows up in lots of places; not only the
> patch file, but often in the Source: line and so on.
And that's a more common usage than in InstallScript where one needs
to "cp -r doc/html %i/share/%n" and would have to consider adding
%type_pkg things to that %n.
But I still like the idea of having an unversion-name available.
Actually, this could fulfill a long-standing annoyance with our shlibs
policy, namely that %n isn't just the library name. That means we
have:
Package: libfoo2
Version: 2.4.1
Source: mirror:sourceforge:libfoo/libfoo-%v.tar.gz
Gotta retype "libfoo" everywhere. Now we could do:
Package: libfoo%type_pkg[shlibvers]
Version: 2.4.1
Type: shlibvers 2
Source: mirror:sourceforge:%n/%n-%v.tar.gz
> I think we need a %versioned_name type of percent field for the fully
> expanded name.
Okay, but that particular name is not gonna work. It's ambiguous
whether (using the example above) that should expand to "libfoo2" or
to "2.4.1ersioned_name". "%V" is unused, so maybe "%Versioned_name" or
better yet (since a variant isn't just for versions) "%Variant_name"?
> On the other hand, the name of the "parent", as represented by %N, should
> probably be the versioned name of the parent. (This would allow splitoffs
> within variant packages to function as they do now.)
Agreed. We're going to have to be very careful how we document %n,
though. In a SplitOff it should probably be the full Package string
(so the Shlibs field doesn't have to be changed).
Package: foo%type_pkg[-x11]
Type: -x11 (boolean)
# %n is foo
# %Variant_name is either foo-x11 or foo
SplitOff: <<
Package: %N-shlibs
# %N is either foo-x11 or foo
# %n is either foo-x11-shlibs or foo-shlibs
# (*not* always foo-shlibs)
<<
dan
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