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

[Anders Bergh]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:37, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>

I am working on a basic port of Arch to another kernel, and I thought
it would be nice to have those packages make it obvious they're not
going to work on Linux. For instance, if someone were to Google the
package filenames and find my repository they might not be able to
tell that it's not going to work on their system.

But I do agree it's not strictly necessary.
-- 
Anders Bergh