From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 12 10:51:13 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705F215554; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:50:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA35531; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:50:50 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:50:50 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Nathan Dorfman , Kris Kennaway , "Matthew D. Fuller" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete perform.c Message-ID: <20000112185050.F68030@florence.pavilion.net> References: <20000112131941.A27482@rtfm.net> <200001121837.KAA29133@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200001121837.KAA29133@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:37:35AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Actually a better modification is to stop using the version of the > name of the directory all togeather and store it inside the directory, > one thing this would fix is installing over the top of an existing > port with a newer port and then pkg_delete of the older port leaving > you screwed up. Or not pkg_delete the old port and leaving cruft/wrong > files around. > That's what I was hinting at the other day. AFAIR it's been pointed out in the past the just because a port has the same name as another one doesn't mean that they actually do the same thing - different versions/ different functionality, etc. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message