Bug 66128 – deltup fails getting patches for readline due to naming-scheme

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Jan Girlich 2004-10-02 08:11:01 UTC]

I'm using deltup according to the description found on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=215262 which is very helpfull.

But when I update sys-libs/readline I have problems with the naming-scheme of the patch-files. They are named this way:

readline43-001
readline43-002
readline43-003
...

So the end of the files gets always interpreted as version-number and confuses deltup. Expecially if you turn on to automatically delete old packages.
Better would be something like this:

001_readline43
002_readline43
...

or a name describing the contents of the patches. So programs like deltup or other programs which try to clean the distfiles-archive by checking for e.g. the newest version won't get confused.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install deltup
2. activate removing of old distfiles in deltup
3. update sys-libs/readline

Actual Results:  
the readline-patches couldn't be retrieved because readline43-001 was considered
to be an old version of readline43-002 and got deleted and so on, recursively.
In the end there was just the last patch-file and portage failed.

Expected Results:  
It was expected that the last part of the name of the readline-patches is not
interpreted as version-number, this means the naming-scheme should not confuse
programs.

emerge info is not needed here...

[Comment 1 Nicolai Lissner 2005-01-06 07:37:21 UTC]

this problem is fixed... just put "^readline" in your /etc/deltup/do_not_remove

[Comment 2 Nicolai Lissner 2005-01-06 07:40:22 UTC]

oh, btw, do not post bugs about this here... Brian Harring will not fix these bugs - and deltup/getdelta is neither in the official portage tree, nor do I see that it will get back into it.
Post bugs to [e-mail]

[Comment 3 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 10:57:17 UTC]

Like Nicolai stated, the ebuilds no longer in the tree.... so closing WONTFIX
Sidenote, Nicolai- have you taken over development of deltup?  Or is JJW back in some form?