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Date:      Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:39:54 +0200
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        SADA Kenji <sada@bsdclub.org>, asami@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: proposal: PRENAME variable
Message-ID:  <20000409153954.A1100@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000409153342.A72327@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 03:33:42PM %2B0200
References:  <20000409115602.A1056@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000409213821C.sada@bsdclub.org> <20000409153342.A72327@mithrandr.moria.org>

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Thus spake Neil Blakey-Milner (nbm@mithrandr.moria.org):

> Ie, if we have a port named foo-120399 (and we had a few like that)
> which later became foo-1.0.1, we'd bump the PORT_EPOCH to 1, and
> carry on from there.

Nice. 

> And for my next trick, I'll import dpkg into the base system! ;)

I'll kick ya. We have our own package-system that can be extended, but
not trashed :)

> More seriously, the dpkg package management engine is pretty nifty,

yes.

> even if the code is painful on the eyes and brain.  My Debian-wielding

the usage, too.

Alex

-- 
I need a new ~/.sig.


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