Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:25:44 +0100 From: Lars Thegler <lars@thegler.dk> To: Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple copies of the same port Message-ID: <41A24B48.8050906@thegler.dk> In-Reply-To: <418D173B.8070205@daltons.ca> References: <418D173B.8070205@daltons.ca>
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Aaron Dalton wrote: > I am currently maintaining the port devel/p5-Heap-Simple which currently > requires perl5.6. The author has released a new-and-improved version > that now requires perl5.8. As not everybody runs 5.8 (I currently do > not) I would like to keep the 5.6 version available. I am new to port > maintanance and am unsure how to proceed: Hi Aaron, Sorry for the late response, and you may have found a solution to your issue anyway, but here goes: If *really* *really* want to keep the older version, you want to take a look look at databases/p5-DBI-137, which was split off the main databases/p5-DBI for this same reason. DBI v 1.37 was the last version to work under perl 5.005_03, so to keep DBI functionality under older perls, this port was created. Ports depending on DBI would then have a conditional dependency (see databases/p5-DBI-Shell for an example). Hope this helps. /Lars
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