Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 03:17:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to set CONFLICTS properly? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0505040310560.76590@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20050504010128.GN1175@k7.mavetju> References: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0505040238130.76590@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20050504010128.GN1175@k7.mavetju>
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On Wed, 4 May 2005, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>> # CONFLICTS - A list of package name patterns that the port conflicts with.
>> # It's possible to use any shell meta-characters for pattern
>> # matching.
>> # E.g. apache*-1.2* apache*-1.3.[012345] apache-*+ssl_*
>>
>> However, CONFLICTS= {gcc-3.3.*,gcc-4.1.*}* fails to detect an installed
>> gcc-3.3.6_20050427 port, whereas `ls $PKG_DBDIR/gcc-{3.3.*,4.1.*}` does
>> indeed find the directory in the database.
>>
>> Why doesn't that CONFLICTS statement work?
> CONFLICTS= gcc-3.4* gcc-4.1*
That gave me the necessary hint: shell meta-characters above refers to
BSD /bin/sh, not tcsh nor GNU /bin/sh (alias bash), and while the latter
two support {...,...}, BSD /bin/sh does not.
Any comments on the patch below, before I send-pr it to portmgr?
Gerald
Index: bsd.port.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.511
diff -u -3 -p -r1.511 bsd.port.mk
--- bsd.port.mk 17 Mar 2005 23:22:07 -0000 1.511
+++ bsd.port.mk 4 May 2005 01:17:06 -0000
@@ -468,10 +468,10 @@ FreeBSD_MAINTAINER= portmgr@FreeBSD.org
# Conflict checking. Use if your port cannot be installed at the same time as
# another package.
#
-# CONFLICTS - A list of package name patterns that the port conflicts with.
-# It's possible to use any shell meta-characters for pattern
-# matching.
-# E.g. apache*-1.2* apache*-1.3.[012345] apache-*+ssl_*
+# CONFLICTS - A list of package name patterns that the port conflicts
+# with, separated by blanks. It's possible to use shell
+# meta-characters "*", "?", "[" and "!" for pattern matching.
+# Example: apache*-1.2* apache*-1.3.[012345] apache-*+ssl_*
#
# Various directory definitions and variables to control them.
# You rarely need to redefine any of these except WRKSRC and NO_WRKSUBDIR.
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