Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:48:13 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Nick Hilliard <nick-lists@netability.ie> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to detect portupgrade and barf Message-ID: <20051010214813.GD24213@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1128959405.30953.4.camel@localhost.netability.ie> References: <1128959405.30953.4.camel@localhost.netability.ie>
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Is there a recommended method for detecting if a port is being upgraded
> using portupgrade? I'm working on a port of a system at the moment
> which requires both the old version and the new version to be installed
> simultaneously. If portupgrade gets its hands on this, the internal
> upgrade process will die because the old version will no longer be
> present, and this will cause the upgrade process to die horribly. What
> I'd like to do is to detect if portupgrade is being used and if so, die
> with an appropriate error message.
>=20
> There are several extra shell variables available on portupgrade,
> including ${PORTSDIR}, ${PACKAGES} and ${PKG_PATH}, but they don't look
> portupgrade-specific enough to use for this purpose.
>=20
> Any suggestions?
Do what needs to be done in the deinstall script of the package. If you
can't do that for some reason, you must find a way to have them both
installed at once that is supported by the ports collection. Short
of some sort of new port per version scheme I don't see a way to do
that.
-- Brooks
--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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