[Slapt-get-user] slapt-get and package names with numbers as name components

[Jason Woodward]

Hi,

> a few days ago I posted a message to the frg list, and I  just want to 
> repeat the second part of it here to make sure that you are aware of the 
> problem:
> 
> >
> > (2) When installing e.g. beagle using slapt-get, dependencies will not 
> > be properly resolved.  The reason is that two mono packages have a 
> > naming convention with an additional number before the version number, 
> > e.g. gecko-sharp-2.0-0.11-i486-1frg.  Somehow slapt-get does not seem 
> > to handle this correctly.  I needed to manually use 'slapt-get 
> > --install gecko-sharp-2.0'.  (I know this is more of a slapt-get 
> > issue, but Jason is reading the list, isn't he?).

And this was fixed in their slack-required, as 'gecko-sharp-2.0' is the name of the package,
rather than 'gecko-sharp'.


thanks and take care,
jason

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Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org