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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:21:14 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@nours.eu>
Cc:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r565221 - in head: . misc/hwdata misc/pnpids
Message-ID:  <20210216092113.GA78911@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20210216090337.e5zehk5xadmubwga@aniel.nours.eu>
References:  <202102141234.11ECYrx3027630@repo.freebsd.org> <20210214132857.GA89961@FreeBSD.org> <20210215090549.zad3k3xkahbtiyy3@aching.in.mat.cc> <eb473f35-b403-4ebe-9402-45e173594b95@nours.eu> <20210216085705.zt2qcm6rrpcypnfk@aching.in.mat.cc> <20210216090337.e5zehk5xadmubwga@aniel.nours.eu>

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:03:37AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:57:05AM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:48:30PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > ...
> > > How so? The port has a new name, a new origin, etc, it is a totally
> > > different package now
> > 
> > Yes, but when we introduce the PKGMOVED file to handle package renames,
> > like we talked about, it will be required.
> 
> Yes and in that case pkg will just reinstall the new package because it
> has been renamed and ignore the version schema, so we can reset portepoch

In fact, this (ability to reset version numbers upon package rename) should
be one of the design requirements IMHO.

./danfe



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