From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 23:15:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC34106564A for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:15:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFC18FC13 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25846 invoked by uid 399); 9 Mar 2010 23:15:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 9 Mar 2010 23:15:38 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B96D698.7010006@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:15:36 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <47B3280E-2609-476D-92EA-BC940C8C49D3@freebsd.org> <20100309192514.49a88a53@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20100309190124.GA48403@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20100309190124.GA48403@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Ports with same name X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:15:41 -0000 On 3/9/2010 11:01 AM, Charlie Kester wrote: > Could be a problem for tools like portmaster that allow the user to > specify the port name only, rather than category/portname. That only works for installed ports, FYI. > If a user has both gags installed and then runs "portmaster gag", how > should portmaster resolve the ambiguity? It won't, it will upgrade them both. OTOH, 2 ports with the same UNIQUENAME would be a problem for portmaster since it stores information about installed distfiles in /var/db/ports. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/