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mattux

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Registered: 2004-04-22

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allow all chars in pkgver

i tried to make the lbreakout 2.5beta package ..
but the makepkg doesn't allow to set pkgver=2.5beta-8
pkgver=2.5beta8 works...
howto enable the first one (i have to change the download and compile location) i thinks lbreakout isnt the only one where this would be nice...

mattux

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: allow all chars in pkgver

you can create a new variable for the $origversion

$origver=2.5beta-8
$pkgver=2.5beta8

and then use origver in the source() and build()

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Xentac

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Re: allow all chars in pkgver

There are other reasons for not allowing all characters in pkgver.

The package docs say that you should try not to use any variables that aren't explicitly specified, because we may add them at one point and then they'll get overwritten.

It just means you have to suck it up.  Check a package like user-mode-linux for how I did it.

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sarah31

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Re: allow all chars in pkgver

while not allowing some characters is annoying and usually adds a few tweaks of the build syntax it is a good thing because as Xentac said allowing all chars can cause problems down the road (sometimes not even down the road).

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mattux

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Registered: 2004-04-22

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Re: allow all chars in pkgver

ok thx for the many answers

mattux