From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 05:52:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608A216A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:52:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm15.prodigy.net (ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F5C43D45 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:52:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-115-74-195.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.74.195]) i7O5qiEU001705; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:52:44 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 30314512EE; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:52:38 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Langille Message-ID: <20040824055238.GA52583@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <412A1B18.4785.80649D9F@localhost> <412A3ED0.12730.80F02992@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <412A3ED0.12730.80F02992@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Oliver Eikemeier Subject: Re: LATEST_LINK unique or not? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:52:49 -0000 --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On 24 Aug 2004 at 0:37, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: >=20 > > Dan Langille wrote: > >=20 > > > Is LATEST_LINK supposed to be unique? It's not. There's about 201 > > > ports which have duplicate values. > >=20 > > It is, expect when NO_LATEST_LINK is set (in which case no latest link= =20 > > exists). Did you filtr out these cases? Everything else is bug, Kris di= d=20 > > some survey AFAIK. >=20 > I obtained my list from the output of "make -V LATEST_LINK" and paid=20 > no attention to NO_LATEST_LINK. >=20 > Are you saying LATEST_LINK must be ignored if NO_LATEST_LINK is set? =20 > Why is this not done programatically? i.e. output an empty string. The only reason is because LATEST_LINK was originally used only within bsd.port.mk in situations where NO_LATEST_LINK is tested. Perhaps you're using it for something else now that might justify changing the behaviour. Kris --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBKtelWry0BWjoQKURAs3pAJoD/QzSOnjywfKze3fjUQtNH/zN3wCfXqmb DQNdWCokWhX4IkOkOHHsg80= =jPa4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--