Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:53:51 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> Cc: glarkin@freebsd.org, pav@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now Message-ID: <20100117185350.GI5651@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20100117124506.1563d9ad@miwi.homeunix.com> References: <d873d5be1001161001i5d398205hea3d2ec1978ee3f@mail.gmail.com> <4B520C71.9080301@FreeBSD.org> <1263673588.1541.60.camel@hood.oook.cz> <4B524584.9050909@FreeBSD.org> <1263725045.1541.66.camel@hood.oook.cz> <20100117124506.1563d9ad@miwi.homeunix.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 17), Martin Wilke said: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:44:05 +0100 > Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Greg Larkin píse v so 16. 01. 2010 v 18:02 -0500: > > > Here is the original post: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg227363.html > > > > I will agree that `portupgrade -o` is way too useful feature. I'd vote > > for reverting to the old behaviour. > > > > > I thought portmgr might have some insight into additional reasons for > > > making the change, such as fixing a problem with pointyhat builds, > > > etc. At the moment, I'm neutral on the change, since it hasn't caused > > > me any grief, but I did some research for the folks who posted the > > > original questions. > > > > It was done because someone thought it is a good idea and submitted a PR > > about it. > > For some ports is the conflict check too late see example here. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2009-December/000577.html > > I agree that we need a new pre-fetch hook in bsd.port.mk if a conflict > present is. But that need a bit work and it is on my todo list... Maybe CONFLICTS could be treated like DEPENDS, with separate BUILD and RUN checks. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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