[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs gpg_error, libgpg_error0, libgpg_erro(...)

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 06.05.2011 um 15:39 schrieb Philip Brown:
>>
>>> For stub packages, GAR would do a REST query against the buildfarm database
>>> and embed the previous package's catalogname in a custom field in pkginfo.
>>> That in turn would be inspected by checkpkg.
>>
>> Can you not allow override of catalog name directly in the gar recipe?
>
> You can override it directly in the GAR recipe. But you must recognize
> that the catalog name of the obsoleted package is different from the
> infered name of the package.
>

for "inherited gar" recipies.. .wouldnt the catalog name already be
set specifically in the old recipe?
in that case, the maintainer would have to be completely ignoring the
old recipie and creating one from scratch, to not be aware of it.
That's not usually  a good methodology.