Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:54:19 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LATEST_LINK not in index Message-ID: <1238446459.17527.4.camel@hood.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <49CE6B06.8080402@bsdforen.de> References: <49CE6B06.8080402@bsdforen.de>
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Dominic Fandrey p=ED=B9e v so 28. 03. 2009 v 19:23 +0100:
> I'm working on a binary package upgrade tool that gets all required
> information from the INDEX file downloadable from the package
> repositories. This means you do not need a local copy of the ports
> tree to use it.
>=20
> The only information required and missing is the LATEST_LINK.
> Normally this is easily done by stripping the package name of
> the version, but some ports define a proprietary LATEST_LINK
> to avoid conflicts. This leads to the following problem, my
> program has to do some guessing and in these cases it fails:
>=20
> # pkg_upgrade firefox3
> #
>=20
> # pkg_upgrade firefox
> www/firefox;firefox-2.0.0.20_4,1
> www/firefox3;firefox-3.0.7,1
> #
>=20
> It either matches none or more than one port. I could build
> some guessing logic, but the real solution would be to have
> the LATEST_LINK name in the index file. Is there any chance
> a LATEST_LINK column will be added if I file a PR?
Upgrades are easy. Look up @comment ORIGIN line in +CONTENTS file of the
port being upgraded, then look up this value in second column of INDEX
file.
--=20
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
It's now using GIFs instead of JPEGs. This is similar to replacing
triangular wheels with round ones.
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