From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 30 6:31: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from poo.smooch (ts08-003.dublin.indigo.ie [194.125.205.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F509150E5 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 06:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blokey@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 57902 invoked by uid 1001); 30 May 1999 13:30:36 -0000 From: blokey@indigo.ie Message-ID: <19990530143036.A57891@smooch> Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:30:36 +0100 To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: updating ports system Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there any work being done with regards to the ports system? Are people for example implementing a mechanism that lets you check if an older version of a package exists before installing a new one over it (for example sometimes I would install a port, then a new one comes along and I install the new one. Then one day I'll be looking at my packages, see that I have two versions of this port and delete the older one, but oops if the MD5 hash for one of the old files matches the new one that gets deleted too and I end up with one deleted and one unusable port). I know some ports actually do check for this kind of thing but surely it should be standardised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message