[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Add EXTRAVERSION field to package filenames

[Allan McRae]

Anders Bergh wrote:
> >From 92f67cdcff4cbec3c5c9d6b0ca17a6f71fdf87b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Anders Bergh <anders1 at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:11:05 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] makepkg: Add EXTRAVERSION field to package filenames.
> This is intended
>  for packages compiled to run on another operating system than Linux,
>  such as cygwin or Darwin. It is set using --with-pkg-extra-version.
>
> The package filename format is as follows:
>
> {name}-{version}-{rel}-{extraversion}{arch}{ext}
>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Bergh <anders1 at gmail.com>
> ---

I'm not sure why this is needed and will need more explanation...  is 
this so foo-1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz does not have the same file name on 
(e.g.) windows and linux?   Surely they would be in different repos and 
the name conflict will never arrive.

Allan