Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:51:07 +0900 From: MITA Yoshio <mita@ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <7vr86l2b04.wl@smtp.ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <20030527053136.GA84508@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200305262059.h4QKxCFM014664@repoman.freebsd.org> <7vvfvx2c9l.wl@smtp.ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20030527053136.GA84508@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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>The patches committed to pkg_tools fix this.
However, it loses backward compatibility for those who use all
older versions of FreeBSD. I feel the infulence is very severe
because majority of FreeBSD users do not necessarily know how to
solve this problem with their actual version of FreeBSD.
And I myself feel that one can (and tends to) expect a backward
compatibility for slight minor version change such as 5.0-RELEASE
and 5.1-RELEASE. A RELEASE version becoming incompatible with
current ports before the next RELEASE, that is a bit too much for
me.
Instead, could you please investigate a very, very simple
alternative that I proposed? It's just using the
/var/db/${PKGNAME}/+COMMENT file, which is ALWAYS correct.
Backward compatibility is assured in that case, and until now no I
find no negative effect.
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MITA Yoshio
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