From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 8 21:19:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E3F8E01 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 21:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [198.252.153.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02A1B101E for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 21:19:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fulvetta.riseup.net (fulvetta-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "Gandi Standard SSL CA" (not verified)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 863214F3A0 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 13:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: nzp@fulvetta.riseup.net) with ESMTPSA id 2FB80120 Message-ID: <52F69F6E.3010808@riseup.net> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:19:42 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrb2xhIFBhdmxvdmnEhw==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4sgK9QVvOOUPdfdW9MNbGRh3gEDtt17qL" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.8 at mx1 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:19:55 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --4sgK9QVvOOUPdfdW9MNbGRh3gEDtt17qL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/02/14 13:58, Rick Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Nebdal =20 > wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rick Miller=20 >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski=20 >>> >> wrote: >>>> The ability to install certain package version, instead of=20 >>>> installing simply the latest one. Please, please, pretty=20 >>>> please! :) >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> I echo this sentiment, but I would like to take it a step >>> further and say "a certain version or greater". >>>=20 >>>=20 >>=20 >> I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" -=20 >> sometimes you might want to hold back a package. >>=20 >=20 > Correct. My wish is the functionality be extended further to mean "a > certain version *or* newer", encompassing both features. Thus,=20 > allowing him to say "port-1.1", while I say "port-1.4 or newer" or=20 > even "port-1.0 or newer". >=20 Python's pip has a nice syntax for this, for example: somepackage>=3D1.6,<=3D1.8 Something like this could be adopted. (Disregarding the discussion if this is technically feasible ATM, I'm sure it will be eventually). --=20 I guess the Little League is even littler than we thought. -- D. Cavett --4sgK9QVvOOUPdfdW9MNbGRh3gEDtt17qL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQGcBAEBCAAGBQJS9p9vAAoJECVxJsPurgHoPbcL/R6T4zBV6Brflb4LHHT5LCFB xe+L1C2dGHx4jARsC0fhzh/QqnQsis9LB9lHGJi38Ka4p+OB65lT4nmpUc22IXn7 HWpRF/IND161GgFd+7zlYOI8tj8d7iQSfO0oXqwE4lD4FwK6jNrTMfA0Wozhhapx +Eol7ZH58fUQffXPEliE+V7p2sKQVQ7rwfIZ4X8b6X5kC+NpGxDxJPOB4NUIHPWO z50ZL1ET/vjd1eXpwPjSL0nOkipZT7ZTMExVyQZMSiM/3dnR5zQt+28iAa9Qdc/q PmxTiWzXwejrdMWyTulqogj/R0+T9DxCSASXqMDg/spL6MXUGhHmGMXn6//0eK3l wTzhFzSNm8qwdk1QP7QBycJ4qsyv1X7ABD2oJjuI2TJe/ScX35jAk5Uy5iWCg+vf iiBourthErMTX8bNaMDtZNNMmk0U/GrFCwXOeFkOHgybZSf5cLZzfjCb2W+YNXXm qDcSlHNbuZuOi0ljbffsigAxX+6yvAFALav8lyuCDw== =JPsF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4sgK9QVvOOUPdfdW9MNbGRh3gEDtt17qL--