Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 21:23:41 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@freebsd.org>, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch@dssgmbh.de> Cc: pgsql@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "make index" shows missing port directory Message-ID: <CADLo83-9Yf5dT=JuO%2ByGiMtrkVvsW3Df_3qnrm_u9kfFShKOVQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FD23FC4.5070609@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FD1A691.8010300@dssgmbh.de> <CADLo839Tn_VfvKswyRg-TSCswoeE4EtfP-07BDtTBPtfhgYVjg@mail.gmail.com> <4FD23FC4.5070609@FreeBSD.org>
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On Jun 8, 2012 7:10 PM, "Palle Girgensohn" <girgen@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Chris Rees skrev: > > On 8 June 2012 08:15, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch@dssgmbh.de> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Hi, > >> > ... > >> Adding this missing entry to the portstree should solve this issue. > >> To avoid such problems in the future, it would IMHO be preferable to > >> have only one port (/usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-mysql), which is able > >> to handle all mysql versions, similar to p5-DBD-Pg. > > > > Actually, I'm looking at moving p5-DBD-Pg to versioned ports, since it > > is less unpredictable to install a versioned port, the autodetection > > logic is messy and packages are not built for any but the default > > version. > > > > Chris > > That is partly true, but it is also strange to have a versioned port > where there is no difference other than the dependency? > Oops, haha, I remember looking at it and also thinking what you just said.=A0 Sorry for the noise. Alfred, there actually is a port databases/p5-DBD-mysql which is the only one that ports should depend on (I had this conversation with Alex Dupre IIRC, the maintainer of mysql). I'll do a quick scan for ports depending on the versioned ports and get PRs= in. Chris
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