From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 18:36:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E661065672 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:36:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDF98FC1F for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:36:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B15955C38; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:36:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:36:23 -0500 From: Wesley Shields To: Martin Cracauer Message-ID: <20081118183623.GD81192@atarininja.org> References: <20081116045257.2EBEE12E4209@quark.ds9.tecnik93.com> <20081118160528.GA79253@cons.org> <20081118185717.0573f110@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20081118170826.GA82098@cons.org> <20081118192837.03bd8b53@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20081118173545.GA83384@cons.org> <49230009.4080903@FreeBSD.org> <20081118183033.GA85610@cons.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081118183033.GA85610@cons.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Greg Larkin , ports@FreeBSD.org, Ion-Mihai Tetcu Subject: Re: How do conditionalize plist on $NOPORTDOCS X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:36:25 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:30:33PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >>> While we are talking, how do you guys thing I should handle this > > >>> problem: it's a binary port. There are different binaries for > > >>> FreeBSD-6.x, 7.x, 8.x > > >>> http://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/downloads/release/19e/ > > >>> > > >>> The 6.3 will run everywhere. Should I just use that one? Do you want > > >>> me to conditionalize on FreeBSD version? > > >> If they bother to release different native binaries for our supported > > >> OS versions let encourage them to keep doing that ;-) > > > > > > "They" == kind of me, although I didn't build these particular > > > binaries. > > > > > > Is there prior art in ports about how to do this? What do I do with > > > oddball version numbers? > > > > Perhaps you can conditionalize the DISTNAME based on the FreeBSD version > > number, as shown on this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/freebsd-versions.html? > > > > If you do that, just make sure that the distinfo file has an entry for > > each possible DISTNAME value, so the checksum verification will work on > > any FreeBSD version. > > So what happens when a user runs FreeBSD-6, installs such a port, > then upgrades to FreeBSD-7. > > Would the port for the installed package come up with the wrong plist > and whatnot? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're asking but if the port installs different files based upon the version it's being installed on it should use PLIST_SUB accordingly. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist.html -- WXS