Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:17:00 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LATEST_LINK not in index Message-ID: <1238753820.66242.26.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> In-Reply-To: <49D5DAFF.9030304@bsdforen.de> References: <49CE6B06.8080402@bsdforen.de> <1238446459.17527.4.camel@hood.oook.cz> <49D2956A.20106@bsdforen.de> <1238573306.66242.1.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <49D5DAFF.9030304@bsdforen.de>
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Dominic Fandrey p=ED=B9e v p=E1 03. 04. 2009 v 11:46 +0200:
> Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > Dominic Fandrey p=ED=B9e v st 01. 04. 2009 v 00:12 +0200:
> >=20
> >>> Upgrades are easy. Look up @comment ORIGIN line in +CONTENTS file of =
the
> >>> port being upgraded, then look up this value in second column of INDE=
X
> >>> file.
> >>>
> >> I don't see how this is connected to my question.
> >>
> >> I want people to be able to use LATEST_LINK to identify ports,
> >> e.g. apache for www/apache13, apache20 form www/apache20 and so
> >> forth. LATEST_LINK is a unique identifier, unfortunately
> >> neither recorded in the INDEX nor +CONTENTS.
> >> Also, to read it from +CONTENTS (if it were there) I'd have to
> >> know, which package is actually meant, which I don't know,
> >> because this is the information I want to find out.
> >=20
> > Maybe you really want people to specify ports by ORIGIN, not by
> > LATEST_LINK ...
> >=20
>=20
> Actually I want people to be able to do both. Since this is a
> binary package only tool, I want people to be able to use the
> same parameters as they'd be able to use with "pkg_add -r".
>=20
> I have implemented some guessing by now and it fails very rarely.
> But it's not the kind of solution I like.
You could ls -l Latest/ directory on the ftp server and parse the
output, but it's a huge hack..
--=20
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
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