From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 31 09:50:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A58116A400; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0989F13C441; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (unknown [82.233.2.192]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503644A19A; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:50:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA94B11AE2; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:50:15 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CaWVlUCQPoTg; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:50:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from [193.120.13.130] (cream.xbsd.org [193.120.13.130]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41B011806; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:50:08 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45C06582.3030909@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:46:42 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Pantyukhin References: <45BF40B3.50607@yahoo-inc.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig79A0C970F421B4F2BB7E0EFB" Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REPLACES variable in Makefile ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:50:17 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig79A0C970F421B4F2BB7E0EFB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 1/30/07, Alagarsamy wrote: >> I want to know whether we are having REPLACES variable just >> like CONFLICTS variable in the Makefile ? >> >> I have two packages A and B. Package A is already installed. >> I want to install package B which should automatically replace the >> package A. In case, if there is no REPLACES variable, is there any >> other way to do this ? >=20 > Your end-user desire is clear, but if you want to > go a bit further and propose a solution you should > probably examine systems where this already works > (I'd start with debian). >=20 > Currently in ports, you just have to bark at users > to perform some actions manually. Nobody barks here. --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --------------enig79A0C970F421B4F2BB7E0EFB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFwGWJMxEkbVFH3PQRCjK1AJ0QjvzkzasD9CqJ8Dz3qx5/r/JsdACdGmiY uN4GpG8MbCYUW3r/fNGkR5I= =HbMr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig79A0C970F421B4F2BB7E0EFB--