Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: eivind@dimaga.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/Version Numbers Message-ID: <199704302144.OAA04453@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970430093850.00fc1c10@dimaga.com> (message from Eivind Eklund on Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:38:51 %2B0200)
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* Why are we using version numbers as parts of our port-names? This allow * overwriting part of an existing port (e.g. samba 1.9.14) with a new version * of the same port, and with no warnings. Are there any benefits beyond the * fact that the presently installed version number is obvious (which we * probably could fix anyway)? The problem is not that version numbers are part of our port names -- it is that the utilities that use them (bsd.port.mk, pkg_add) don't process them very intelligently. I am thinking about fixing bsd.port.mk, but it's quite complicated if we want to do it right -- there are ports that are designed to coexist well (e.g., tk-4.1 and tk-4.2). We probably need a new variable to specify those situations. Satoshi
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