Bug 22753 – package name recognition

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alcino Dall Igna Junior 2003-06-13 08:07:17 UTC]

I was trying to make an ebuild to xae-1.0beta8 (xae-beta.tar.gz), but portage
does not accept this name. I made an ebuild xae-1.0_beta8.ebuild, it seems to
work but doesn't, problably because
/use/tmp/portage/xae-1.0_beta8/work/xae-1.0beta8 is not reacheable. An easy
solution is untar the tar.gz, change the directory name and tar it again, but
this means not to be possible to get the tar.gz from the original location.

Ideas? 

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-06-13 08:30:39 UTC]

The ebuilds must be named in a standard way: 
 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml#doc_chap2 
 
But you can perform trickery inside of them to have them handle package names that may 
not follow the same convention: 
 
For example, look at the x11-libs/qt-3.2.0_beta1 ebuild.  It uses a MY_P variable to hold the 
actual package name.