Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:37:32 +1000 From: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: www/libxul 10 upgrade confusion Message-ID: <20120910213732.GA9164@rwpc15.mby.riverwillow.net.au>
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--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've just updated my ports tree and was about to rebuild updated ports... www/libxul has just been updated from 1.9.2.28 to 10.0.7. There is an entry in UPDATING explaining that the old version has been moved to www/libxul19 for those who want to continue to use it. That's fine. I launched portmaster to kick off the build of updated ports and was presented with an options config screen for www/libxul. All still good. I was then preseneted with an options config screen for www/libxul19. Huh?! It turns out that ports which were dependent upon www/libxul have been updated to depend upon www/libxul19 which, obviously, conflicts with www/libxul. All this appears to have been done in the one commit (r304053) but doesn't make sense to me. It looks like if I want to use any ports which depend upon libxul, then I need to migrate to www/libxul19 and rebuild dependent ports. So, if the new www/libxul is unsuitable for use in libxul-dependent ports, why was the main port upgraded and the new version not introduced as www/libxul10 or something? I must be missing something fundamental but I just can't see the point of this churn/confusion if dependent ports are being pointed at the migrated old port www/libxul19. Thanks to the folks who maintain these complex ports. I'm guessing there are sound reasons for all of this which just haven't been communicated, or I need more caffeine. /me waits to be educated. --=20 John Marshall --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBOXZwACgkQw/tAaKKahKL9jgCgxrKujOpgpPwDZJAEdKQbQZhS +nMAmweEnJ1Dsr0e4vCCD5W5mFr74mb+ =YcgT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--
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