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Re: Incorrect version in packages names


--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:35:12PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
> >To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> >Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 4:16 PM
> >
> >> >and in setup.ini :
> >> >@ kdelibs-2
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> Get rid of this.  I suspect that it is confusing setup.exe.
> >> It should certainly do the right thing without it.
> >
> >Doh!. Good catch Chris.
> >
> >Yes, foo-bar is allowable as a package name, foo-2 is not. I'll see
> what I
> >can do for a future setup.exe release to address this, but don't expect
> >anything soon. It'll require altering the installed.db database format,
> >which results in a non-backwards compatible local environment.
> 
> upset would probably do the right thing with the above but I really
> don't
> see any reason to use it, regardless.  I don't see any reason why a user
> would need to know that these are kdelibs-2 when it is pretty obvious
> from
> the version number.
> 
Chris,

He might want to maintain co-existing libraries in the same manner as
BerkleyDB (i.e. upgrading to kdelibs v3 doesn't clobber kdelibs v2).  So
the correct syntax ought to be kdelibs2 not kdelibs-2.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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