From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 13 9:11:51 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from eterna.binary.net (eterna.binary.net [12.13.84.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676F3155A5; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nathan@rtfm.net) Received: from matrix.binary.net (root@matrix.binary.net [12.13.120.2]) by eterna.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA46513; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:10:30 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by matrix.binary.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA65239; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:11:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:11:37 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Kris Kennaway , Josef Karthauser , "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: <20000113121137.A65104@rtfm.net> References: <200001130615.WAA31157@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <200001130615.WAA31157@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from Rodney W. Grimes on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:15:05PM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- Nathan Dorfman The statements and opinions in my Unix Admin @ Frontline Communications public posts are mine, not FCC's. "The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train." --/usr/games/fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message