From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 1 9: 5:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ewdafa.b0rk.co.uk (pc58-gui2.cable.ntl.com [62.252.3.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D53737B67D for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc133-gui2.cable.ntl.com (zink) [62.252.3.133] by ewdafa.b0rk.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14OMjV-0000eX-00; Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:37:17 +0000 Message-ID: <005201c08ba8$3ac799a0$0a00a8c0@reevolved.net> From: "ewdafa" To: Subject: @comment ORIGIN Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:06:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ello, The recent addition of the ORIGIN comment is great. It's allowed me to whip up a ports checking tool that checks out /var/db/pkg/ for installed packages and then looks under /usr/ports for updated versions of the packages. BUT, there are some inconsistencies.. these are probably down to the package maintainers themselves. I found that mysql323-client and mysql323-server both have a strange Makefile scheme thats different to other ports e.g. mysql323-client: PORTNAME= ${MASTERPORTNAME:S/-server/-client/g} mysql323-server: PORTNAME?= ${MASTERPORTNAME} It seems the client is just a kind of wrapper around the server, but, it would still be handy to have the proper information in there. Hm. This at the moment is the only thing breaking my app, apart from that it seems to work quite well. I was thinking, is there a way to easily update packages? At the moment i 'make deinstall' and then 'make clean; make install', as im not so keen on what 'make reinstall' is actually doing. How do you guys do it? -ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message