Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 04:00:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/28521: inconsistency: daemontools and serialmail Message-ID: <200109231100.f8NB08580644@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/28521; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> To: Andre Goeree <abgoeree@uwnet.nl> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, nbm@FreeBSD.org, dom@happygiraffe.net Subject: Re: ports/28521: inconsistency: daemontools and serialmail Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:56:37 +0100 [Summary: Both the daemontools and serialmail ports install a program called setlock in the same location. Can we resolve this?] On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:26:36PM +0200, Andre Goeree wrote: > > In this particular case (serialmail/daemontools) the conflicting > files do not differ much. The files are from the same developer > and have probably the same function (are interchangeable/compatible). Right. The code for both versions of setlock is near enough identical, from our point of view. > The problem comes when one of the ports gets deinstalled and deletes > the conflicting file, it could still be needed by the other port. > A solution would be to not to delete the file but to display a message > about deleting the file manually when it's no longer needed, this is > already common practice with users (postgresql). I'm the maintainer of the serialmail port, and I'm copying this message to Neil, the maintainer of daemontools, and Dom, the maintainer of daemontools53. If it weren't for the daemontools53 port, I'd suggest that serialmail be modified to not install setlock but depend on daemontools instead. However, some users may have daemontools53 installed instead which does not include setlock. Most of the files in daemontools are daemontools53 have identical names, though, so users can't install both ports. I can't think of a neat way to deal with this, but I thought it might be useful to mention my thoughts so far. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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