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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-05-15 10:33:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-05-15 10:33:47 +0200 |
| commit | b4ed2cc271b3e81049227d9fb25538dfed981fc9 (patch) | |
| tree | 73c6c4515db54c9f23e12dd2b52366b2e28767d3 /ebuild-writing/file-format | |
| parent | Add item about allowed characters in filenames. (diff) | |
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Update ebuild naming rules from PMS.
PMS doesn't allow package names to begin with a hyphen or a plus sign,
and also has some restrictions on how these names can end.
Apply the same rules to leading characters of other files.
This reflects the current status of the portage tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'ebuild-writing/file-format')
| -rw-r--r-- | ebuild-writing/file-format/text.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ebuild-writing/file-format/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/file-format/text.xml index 1e1f59c..6ab22a2 100644 --- a/ebuild-writing/file-format/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-writing/file-format/text.xml @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ happy. </note> <p> +The name must not begin with a hyphen or a plus sign, and must not end +in a hyphen followed by anything that could be mistaken for a version. +</p> + +<p> The version section is more complicated. It consists of one or more numbers separated by full stop (or period, or dot, or decimal point) characters (eg <c>1.2.3</c>, <c>20050108</c>). The final number may have a single letter following it |