Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:41:30 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available? Message-ID: <5421404A.7060606@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <20140923090937.GB20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <CAO82ECHfocf=c2=ShbdJSg7Y8sjbQNChNZexzn8XMW6zaPwp=g@mail.gmail.com> <20140923083359.GA20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54213713.7020200@sorbs.net> <20140923090937.GB20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On 23.09.2014 16:09, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> Just a thought here - why (like .rpm and .deb - and the reason I hate >> them so much) are you making the package manager version a dependency of >> a package? I can understand if there are new features that you may need >> to use a later version to get those features, but making a package >> dependent on the package manager rather than displaying a warning that a >> feature is missing is the brain dead way that plagues upgrades for >> redhat and debian. Of course if your intent is to make FreeBSD into >> another Linux distro just with a different kernel, continue. >> > > There are new feature, that is why, the required version will be only bumped > when there will be new features used by the ports tree, not on every pkg bump Please, please do document what new features resulted in MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION bump. And please, delay bumping of MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION until packages of pkg itself are available from the repo. Eugene Grosbein
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