Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:29:22 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: autoconf/automake guru wanted [gnuplot-4.0 with patches] Message-ID: <20070918172922.32c0b904@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <46EFE5E6.9000602@cosmozilla.net> References: <46EFE5E6.9000602@cosmozilla.net>
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:51:18 -0700 Ted Thomas <tthomas@cosmozilla.net> wrote: > I'm sorry if this sounds like a complaint. I just spent 2 days > attempting to salvage a sane 6.2 development box which does not use > X-Windows, because I stumbled into the Xorg quagmire. Recognizing > that the ports system is itself a remarkable achievement, I would > distill my concern down to one thing: naming conventions. > > Example 1: autoconf/automake > > autoconf-2.59_3 = up-to-date with port > autoconf-2.61_2 = up-to-date with port These two are no problem, they are different ports. > autoconf-wrapper-20070404 = up-to-date with port > .. > automake-wrapper-20070404 = up-to-date with port This shouldn't happen, do you have multiple entries in /var/db/pkg?
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