Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 12:49:02 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: blokey@indigo.ie Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating ports system Message-ID: <19990530124902.A5186@mad> In-Reply-To: <19990530143036.A57891@smooch>; from blokey@indigo.ie on Sun, May 30, 1999 at 02:30:36PM %2B0100 References: <19990530143036.A57891@smooch>
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On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 02:30:36PM +0100, blokey@indigo.ie wrote:
>
> 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
This doesn't sound too hard at all. Add an appropriate
.if make(install)
to the top of the _PORT_USE section of bsd.port.mk that checks to see
if the port is installed. You already have the variable ${PKGBASE}
defined for you. Use the pkg_info(1) command to see if the port is
installed (you could go grokking through PKG_DB_DIR yourself, too,
although that's perhaps a little less preferable). If so, print a
message advising the user to delete the old one.
You might need to be careful about searching for the $PKGBASE "ref"
and accidentally finding "referree"...
Ideally, pkg_add(1) would be modified to include a similar warning.
This wouldn't be a very hard modification for someone just becoming
familiar with the system to make.
We'll be expecting patches in two weeks. :-)
> deleted and one unusable port). I know some ports actually do check for this
> kind of thing but surely it should be standardised.
They do!?! Ugh.
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