Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:13:06 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Is there a mechanism to select the preferred version from mulitple installed versions of a port? Message-ID: <28ECD867-F222-4C4D-BE44-4A75606973A9@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi,
MacPorts has this and I believe that Debian has something similar.
Say I want to install
foobar-1.0
and
foobar-2.0
and they CONFLICT
what if I could change the foobar ports to install in, say =
${PREFIX}/libexec/foobar-1.0 and ${PREFIX}/libexec/foobar-2.0 =
respectively, and then add a metaport that symlinks the preferred one.
Fine you say, look at python or similar metaports. Sure, but it would =
nice to have a port that also has a command
portselect foobar foobar-1.0
or
portselect foobar foobar-2.0
and the preferred version would be symlinked from =
${LOCALBASE}/bin/foobar -> ${PREFIX}/libexec/foobar-2.0/foobar so users =
could set and change the default version and still use the common binary =
distributed packages.
Just a thought. This could of course be written for a specific port, but =
perhaps there is a mechanism in the ports tree for this that I've =
missed?
Palle
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