Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:11:37 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete perform.c Message-ID: <20000113121137.A65104@rtfm.net> In-Reply-To: <200001130615.WAA31157@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from Rodney W. Grimes on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:15:05PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001121939570.20720-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <200001130615.WAA31157@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:15:05PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> >
> > > one doesn't mean that they actually do the same thing - different versions/
> > > different functionality, etc.
> >
> > cf net/bb vs misc/bb
>
> Houston, we might have a problem here.
> Tranquility base, what problem might you be having?
>
> Orbit.hpc1.com:root{515}# grep DIST */bb/Makefile
> misc/bb/Makefile:DISTNAME= bb-1.2
> net/bb/Makefile:DISTNAME= bb-1.2a
>
> Too close for my taste, predicted probably of collision causing catastrophic
> failure is >90%...
>
> Quick, someone do a full search and check DISTNAME for proximity :-)
This is exactly what I said before -- if two different ports share the same
name and are distinguished only by version number, breakage is imminent.
Perhaps the net/bb port should be renamed to net/bigbrother. This isn't
a valid reason not to remove version numbers from /var/db/pkg directories;
this is something that's broken and needs to be fixed in itself.
> --
> Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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