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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2014 12:56:18 +0200
From:      Enrico Maria Crisostomo <enrico.m.crisostomo@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: Port Name Clash: What To Do?
Message-ID:  <etPan.542bddd3.238e1f29.de06@MacBook0.local>
In-Reply-To: <5911568.kPDBkIzsi4@curlew.lan>
References:  <0A592A38-E61A-45B9-8D3C-63402102D8A0@gmail.com> <5911568.kPDBkIzsi4@curlew.lan>

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Thank you very much Mike,

I=E2=80=99ll have a look at that PR ASAP.

Cheers,
--=C2=A0
Enrico Maria Crisostomo

On 1 Oct 2014 at 12:19:06, Mike Clarke (jmc-freebsd2=40milibyte.co.uk) wr=
ote:

On Wednesday 01 Oct 2014 11:54:36 Enrico Maria Crisostomo wrote: =20

> I'm the author of fswatch (https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch), =20
> a cross-platform file change monitor, and I would like to submit a =20
> new port for it. The port is ready (kudos to the =46reeBSD community =20
> for the high-quality documentation available) but I have not =20
> submitted yet because I discovered that there exists another port =20
> with the same name: security/fswatch. =20
> =20
> I'm now wondering what to do. I could rename the port itself but a =20
> problem would remain: two different ports would contain files with =20
> the same name. In fact, the two ports clash on one file: =20

Until recently there was a port called filtermail which was renamed =20
from mailfilter due to a name conflict. It was recently deleted due to =20
not being staged but I recently got it working again and submitted a =20
PR <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show=5Fbug.cgi=3Fid=3D193721>; =20
suggesting that my modified version of the original port might be =20
reinstated in the ports tree. I don't know if that will happen or not =20
but if you look at the makefile attached to the PR you might be able =20
to use the same technique for renaming the port and relevant files. =20

-- =20
Mike Clarke =20



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