173223 – media-gfx/povray fetches a symlink versioned file

Bug 173223 - media-gfx/povray fetches a symlink versioned file

Summary: media-gfx/povray fetches a symlink versioned file

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-04-03 07:44 UTC by Roberto Castagnola
Modified:	2007-04-03 23:25 UTC (History)
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Description Roberto Castagnola 2007-04-03 07:44:54 UTC

media-gfx/povray-3.6.1* fetches povray-3.6.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Official/Unix/ which is a symlink to current version of the 3.6 series.
To avoid future conflicts, it should be better to fetch correct versioned file.


--- /usr/portage/media-gfx/povray/povray-3.6.1-r2.ebuild        2007-03-28 21:35:45.000000000 +0200
+++ povray-3.6.1-r2.ebuild      2007-04-03 08:59:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 inherit flag-o-matic eutils autotools

 DESCRIPTION="The Persistence Of Vision Ray Tracer"
-SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Official/Unix/povray-3.6.tar.bz2"
+SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Official/Unix/${P}.tar.bz2"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.povray.org/"

 SLOT="0"

Comment 1 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-03 23:25:41 UTC

Fixed in CVS, thanks for the suggestion :)