Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 16:40:40 +0300 (EEST) From: Jari Kirma <kirma@cs.hut.fi> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/55669: emacs20 and emacs21 override each other as default emacs version Message-ID: <200308171340.h7HDeeBZ077782@pallo.cs.hut.fi> Resent-Message-ID: <200308171350.h7HDoDog047856@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 55669
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: emacs20 and emacs21 override each other as default emacs version
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 17 06:50:12 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jari Kirma
>Release: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Helsinki University of Technology
>Environment:
>Description:
editors/emacs20 and editors/emacs21 both install bin/emacs,
which can lead to unintentional default binary changes especially
when portupgrade is used.
(At least it seems like this has happened to me.)
>How-To-Repeat:
Install/upgrade both ports/packages and try out which emacs version
is run by default.
>Fix:
As other ports that implement graceful coexistence of multiple
versions of binaries, leaving selection of the system-wide default
to the system administrator with symlinks. To aid this, bin/emacs20
and bin/emacs21 should be created to avoid breaking symlinks with
minor version bumps.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>System: FreeBSD xxx.cs.hut.fi 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #5: Wed Aug 13 15:34:53 EEST 2003 kirma@xxx.cs.hut.fi:/usr/src/sys/compile/XXX i386
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