Bug 227265 – portage rejects legitimate package names with version-like parts or consecutive hyphens

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2008-06-15 17:32:38 UTC]

Portage rejects any package name which have a version-like "part", even if it's not at the end of the name.

'9p' or '9p-foo' are valid package names but rejected by portage.

While fixing pkgsplit(), it'd be worth to fix package names with consecutive hyphens too. Like 'i--' or 'i---weird'.

[Comment 1 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2009-03-25 22:42:24 UTC]

*** Bug 263787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2009-03-25 23:51:35 UTC]

Thanks, this is fixed in svn r13185.

(In reply to comment #0)
> While fixing pkgsplit(), it'd be worth to fix package names with consecutive
> hyphens too. Like 'i--' or 'i---weird'.

It seems to already check for that. I've added some test cases for that.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2009-03-26 00:09:06 UTC]

> (In reply to comment #0)
> > While fixing pkgsplit(), it'd be worth to fix package names with consecutive
> > hyphens too. Like 'i--' or 'i---weird'.
> 
> It seems to already check for that. I've added some test cases for that.

Err, were you saying they should be allowed?

[Comment 4 Ciaran McCreesh 2009-03-26 00:15:54 UTC]

Multiple hyphens are legal. There're packages whose names contain ++, so -- is probably going to happen at some point too.

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2009-03-26 01:41:55 UTC]

Thanks, consecutive hyphens in or on the end of package names are allowed in svn r13187.

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2009-03-27 20:38:31 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.6.11 and 2.2_rc28.