Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 17:20:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Stefan Esser <se@zpr.uni-koeln.de>, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/print/ghostscript4 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960730171731.18093E-100000@fiber.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960731001207.2694G-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Narvi wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Stefan Esser wrote: > > > > > > Problems like this should be real easily fixable - or will something more > > > > than the number in the filename have to change in the makefile? > > > > > > Sure. But what I meant to say was, that if only > > > the name of a distribution files changes, then > > > we should generally keep the old name in the > > > port's Makefile, in order to reduce unneccesary > > > multi-megabyte FTP transfers. > > > > > > A note might be required in the Makefile, which > > > indicates that the TAR file remains unchanged > > > and thus the version from the previous release > > > will still be used ... > > > > I'm not sure I agree with this. The old tar file is very likely to > > become much harder to get, and keeping parts of older versions, to > > balance off ftp loading time, well, I think this isn't wise. I think it > > would just cause much more confusion than the time saved, for the largest > > number of people. > > It is not the case actually - there are cases when there is no newer > file, just a link with the new name to the old file... I realize it's a case the the same data, new name, but it's the new name that I think is important. Those of us that know enough, can simply rename the darn thing in our ports/distfiles, and I think that we owe that much to our less sophisticated users, not to inject gratuitous confusion. This is too much of a hack for it to be institutionalized. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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