Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:28:34 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, portmgr@freebsd.org, ports-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Triage of rcNG related problem reports/USE_RC_SUBR Message-ID: <m3d5f3vrvh.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0604261529i28967cc1x99679cdd2d334ed9@mail.gmail.com> (Scot Hetzel's message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:29:11 -0500") References: <20060426203500.GB1433@merlin.emma.line.org> <444FE8F6.2040903@FreeBSD.org> <20060426220756.GB6337@merlin.emma.line.org> <790a9fff0604261529i28967cc1x99679cdd2d334ed9@mail.gmail.com>
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"Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> writes: > On 4/26/06, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote: >> And I do have an idea to protect the innocent from installing 6.1 >> packages on 6.0-RELEASE: >> >> 1. Add a PRE-INSTALL mode pkg-install script >> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/pkg-install.html>; >> to all packages built for freebsd >= 600101 and < 700000 or >= 700007. >> >> 2. behavior: If the package is about to be installed on a >> freebsd < 600101 or >= 700000 and < 700007, the pre-install script >> complains, asks the user to use the port instead and exits, aborting >> the install with an error. As portsnap and portmaster are deployed, >> that's something that shouldn't be too difficult to explain. >> >> This could all be handled inside ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. >> > The only problem I see is if a port already has a pkg-install script. > How do you append the warning to it? My idea would be to just prepend the checker code to the existing pkg-install script, or use a server that first calls the new checker script, then the original pkg-install script. -- Matthias Andree
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