Bug 263787 – app-text/foo-123-bar-2.0017a_p-r5 valid according to pms, invalid according to portage

• Product: Documentation
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2009-03-25 22:12:34 UTC]

<zong_sharo> hmm, does any gentoo's package manager accepts package name like foo-123-bar
<zong_sharo> pms defines this as a valid name
<zong_sharo> category/foo-123-bar-2.0017a_p-r5
<zong_sharo> like this
<zong_sharo> one
<reavertm> zong_sharo: you should take pms with some grain of salt
<zong_sharo> some?
<loki_val> zong_sharo: that looks valid.
<zong_sharo> yeah, this is completely in pms spec
<zong_sharo> but, does anyone really accepts this?
<reavertm> well, try if you're curious
<loki_val> portage does not accept this:
<loki_val> Invalid ebuild name: /home/pa/poppler-overlay/app-text/foo-123-bar/foo-123-bar-2.0017a_p-r5.ebuild

[Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2009-03-25 22:16:04 UTC]

Hrm, why doesn't Portage accept this? Which bit specifically does it hate?

[Comment 2 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2009-03-25 22:40:43 UTC]

Portage forbids names with version-like parts.

pym/portage/versions.py:
for x in myparts[:verPos]:
	if ververify(x):
	    pkgcache[mypkg]=None
	    return None
	    #names can't have versiony looking parts

[Comment 3 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2009-03-25 22:42:24 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 227265 ***