370915 – sci-chemistry/vmd: binary file in gentoo-x86/

Bug 370915 - sci-chemistry/vmd: binary file in gentoo-x86/

Summary: sci-chemistry/vmd: binary file in gentoo-x86/

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Markus Dittrich (RETIRED)

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Blocks:	binaries-in-git
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Reported:	2011-06-09 20:58 UTC by Matt Turner
Modified:	2011-06-13 12:25 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2011-06-09 20:58:06 UTC

./sci-chemistry/vmd/files/vmd.png

Binary files like pngs should be distributed via distfiles. CVS (and in the
future, git) don't handle binary files well.

Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-06-13 12:25:36 UTC

+  13 Jun 2011; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> vmd-1.8.7-r2.ebuild,
+  -files/vmd-1.8.7-gentoo.patch, -files/vmd-1.8.7-respect-flags.patch,
+  vmd-1.9.ebuild, -files/vmd-1.9-gentoo-base.patch,
+  -files/vmd-1.9-gentoo-plugins.patch, -files/vmd.desktop, -files/vmd.png:
+  No binaryfiles in VCS please, #370915
+