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Markus Neteler wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:03:02PM -0400, R. Sean Fulton wrote:
Is there a convention for naming GRASS source packages? I ask because
I've been playing with building RPMS and DarwinPorts packages which
assume the source package name and the extracted directory name will
be the same. (e.g. they expect grass-5.0.2_src.tar.gz to extract to
'grass-5.0.2_src/' but it extracts to 'grass5.0.2/')
That's an oversimplification, there are work-arounds but there seems
to be a convention of APPNAME-VERION for the source directory.
Mea culpa - the *GRASS* naming "convention" was a sort of evolving
over the years.
Has this issue ever come up? Are the maintainers aware of it? Do you
think anyone cares?
Not yet 
But I see no problem to update the scripts to follow
a well known naming convention. Let me know what's common and
I'll update the cronjobs.
%{name}-%version}.tar.gz containing %{name}-%{version}/ is customary,
for about 90% of the packages I have made, then some have
%{name}-%{version}_src.tar.gz containing %{name}-%version}/ .
Since source is typically the standard way of distribution, and there is
no such thing as a generic binary, IMHO, the _src suffix to the version
is useless.
The big thing though is that the directory name should be
%{name}-%{version}, to avoid having all RPM packagers having to add "-n
%{name}%{version}" or "-n %{name}_%{version}" or similar to %setup.
Most important thing is to be consistent though ... otherwise we keep
having to make patches like this for no reason:
http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/contrib-SPECS/grass/grass.spec.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
- -%setup -q
+%setup -q -n %{name}%{version}
It's certainly nothing critical, I'm just curious.
No problem. If things can be made better, we should improve them.
It's been mentioned before (so 5.0.0 was right), so chances are that the
actual naming of the directory in a release is not done by a script, but
should be ...
Regards,
Buchan
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