Bug 327679 – versionator.eclass: new function: version_format_string()

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michał Górny 2010-07-10 11:03:26 UTC]

Sometimes upstream uses version strings so awkward, the ebuild have to use formulas like:

MY_PV=$(replace_version_separator 1 '_' $(replace_version_separator 2 '-' $(replace_version_separator 3 '_')))
MY_P=${PN}_linux_source_${MY_PV}

This is a case when I would prefer doing something like that:

MY_P=$(format_version_string '${PN}_linux_source_$1_$2-$3_$4')

where $1, $2, $3 and $4 would be respective version components.

The implementation of such a function could be as simple as:

format_version_string() {
    local fstr=$1
    set -- $(get_version_components)
    eval echo "${fstr}"
}

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2010-07-18 21:25:01 UTC]

i tweaked the func to pass extra arguments to get_version_components

http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/versionator.eclass?r1=1.15&r2=1.16