Bugzilla Bug 124994

Maybe make this ebuild more specific by actually including the RC in the
ebuild?

ok pymol-0.99 is causing problems with pymol-0.99_rc6 which I have placed in my
PORTDIR_OVERLAY because it is incorrectly called pymol-0.99 and not
pymol-0.99_rc1. In any case pymol-0.99_rc6 has been released and supercedes
what is in portage at the moment.

1) cd /usr/portage/distfiles
2) wget http://delsci.com/rel/099/pymol-0_99rc6-src.tgz
3) mv pymol-0_99rc6-src.tgz pymol-0_99_rc6-src.tgz
4) mkdir $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sci-chemistry
5) rsync -av /usr/portage/sci-chemistry/pymol $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sci-chemistry
6) cd $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sci-chemistry/pymol
7) cp pymol-0.99.ebuild pymol-0.99_rc6.ebuild
8) ebuild pymol-0.99_rc6.ebuild digest
9) emerge pymol

..tries to emerge pymol-0.99 because it thinks that it is the final when it is
not.

I'm a bit confused about this, because the homepage link sends you to download
the rc1 tarball and calls it 0.99. Go to http://pymol.sourceforge.net/ and
check out "open-source code."

In fact, in the CHANGES file it looks as if the later rc's are actually meant
to be versioned as later than the actual 0.99 release (which is named rc1). Do
you have a suggestion for how I should deal with this?

=========================================================================
CHANGE LOG
=========================================================================


Changes up to 0.99rcX

    * one-button viewing mode

    * fixed 32-bit memory allocation bug

    * fixed selection argument to rotate command

    * fixed mview-based object animation loops

    * mol2 file reading fixes

    * single-molecule mol, mol2, sdf now not discrete by default.

    * parallel geometry builds

    * massive reworking of ramp_new for molecular objects

    * VRML2 support from Chris Want.

    * fixed button in benchmark wizard

Changes up to 0.99


    pre01

    * WARNING: One annoying GOTCHA!  Launch script "./pymol.com" is now
      just plain old "./pymol" -- sorry for the resulting config hassles.

    * Now running Python 2.4 on Windows, Linux, IRIX, and Solaris
      Mac remains at 2.3 in order to match built-in Mac OS X Python

    * fixed GUI bug in pmg/tk & added new alignment option for states.

    beta38

    * fixed field width bug in PDB writer

RC's are all release candidate, i.e. there was an official 0.98 release and now
development is going on with the RC's of 0.99, i.e. it is not yet final. If you
go to download from pymol.sf.net the current binary it gives is 0.99rc6 and
selecting other shows the source for rc6 .

Then this huge, bold statement on the homepage is wrong?

"February 6th, 2006: PyMOL v0.99 is released!"

even though it says 0.99 released it's not talking about the final version, as
you can see here: http://delsci.com/rel/099/ "release candidate 6 was posted on
March 3rd, 2006."

Fixed, and not happy about the idiotic versioning confusion upstream.