Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:49:40 -0700 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Someone got a clue about bsdpan? Message-ID: <20061011094940.GA82475@svcolo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061006062721.GA4944@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20061006023422.GA77594@svcolo.com> <20061006062721.GA4944@heechee.tobez.org>
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:27:21AM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:34:22PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > > So it appears that installing perl packages from outside of ports nicely > > creates bsdpan packages in the pkg tree. However, I'm having trouble with > > upgrades duplicating the packages, so I was going to do into this and > > figure out what's missing. > > Could you maybe state in more detail what is the problem? package-1.1.2 package-1.1.3 package-1.1.4 ...etc Remove any one of these and the software is uninstalled. Likewise, "make install" doesn't check for them, and happily overwrites. > Perldoc BSDPAN and its SEE ALSO section contains whatever the docs there > are. You know, a package really should have a summary "what we are trying to accomplish (and what we are not)" documented somewhere. Having to read the source code to make a guess what the goals of the project were is ... -- Jo Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation
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