Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:48:10 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version number of openjdk6 port Message-ID: <4D9F667A.90302@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201104081511.47184.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <4D9F1E05.4070900@FreeBSD.org> <201104081511.47184.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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On 4/8/11 3:11 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2011 10:39 am, John Baldwin wrote: >> Please consider using a better version number for the openjdk6 >> port. Right now it uses a version number of 'b20_7' which due to >> the way package version works, is considered less than 0: >> >> % pkg_version -t 0 b20_7 >> >> >> Why does this matter? cfengine uses 'pkg_info -E pkg_name>0' to >> test if a package is installed. > > Then, I would say cfengine is broken. "0" in that version match string > is package dependent, not major, minor, or whatever. For example: > > %pkg_info -E 'avahi>0.6.20' > avahi-0.6.29 > %pkg_info -E 'openjdk6>b0' > openjdk6-b22_4 > %pkg_info -E 'mplayer>1.0.r0' > mplayer-1.0.r20110329 Hmm, I can probably workaround this then using an explicit comparison rule (so it doesn't use >0). It would be nice if we had an official way to match a package with "any version". Perhaps "pkg_info -E 'pkg-*'" if we assume that package names can never have dashes in them (to avoid problems, with, say, 'foo-*' matching both foo-1.0 and foo-bar-1.0.). Oh, we already have those types of packages: xorg-7.5 X.Org complete distribution metaport xorg-apps-7.5_1 X.org apps meta-port The problem is how can software generically say "is any version of the foo package installed". It would seem we don't support that currently? -- John Baldwin
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