From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 9 23:35:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D6C14FFB; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 23:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 127ZM8-0001hc-00; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:35:12 +0200 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:35:12 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-level categories Message-ID: <20000110093512.A5547@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000109175315.G96061@florence.pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000109175315.G96061@florence.pavilion.net> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun 2000-01-09 (17:53), Josef Karthauser wrote: > On a slightly different note... it would be really good if the > pkg_install program could ask if you wanted to uninstall a previous > version at install time. Part of why this isn't possible at the > moment is that the /var/db/pkg hierarchy doesn't contain the actual > package name anywhere, only the 'pkgname-version'. If the structure > of the ports directory is seriously being reconsidered, isn't it > time to reconsider the structure of the /var/db/pkg hierarchy as > well to make it more future proof? It contains the package name. It also contains the version. Where's the problem? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message