Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:23:26 +0000
From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
To: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: OPTIONS and dynamic PKGNAMPREFIX, e.g. {APACHE, PYTHON, ETC}_PKGNAMEPREFIX (Was: ports/148637 ...)
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On 07/19/10 20:05, Anonymous wrote:
> Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> A crude survey shows several ports with this problem, listed below.
>> There appear to be three different solutions used in other ports:
>> explicitly setting OPTIONSFILE, explicitly setting UNIQUENAME, and
>> explicitly setting LATEST_LINK. If you can suggest which is the
>> preferred solution, I'll put together a patch.
>
> They all are workarounds. OPTIONSFILE should be defined *after*
> including bsd.{apache,python,etc}.mk so that user can have different
> options for different versions of apache/python/etc[1]. Same is true for
> UNIQUENAME but it has users under Mk/ directory
> (bsd.{databases,tcl}.mk), so it should be defined before them.
>
> I don't know what workaround is preferred but I'd suggest
> UNIQUENAME. It's easier to type and has same dependency on
> PKGNAMEPREFIX.
>
> [1] For www/mod_musicindex it would be
> /var/db/ports/ap20-mod_musicindex/options
> /var/db/ports/ap22-mod_musicindex/options
>
> You can't install into same PREFIX because its DATADIR is not apache
> version dependant. But many python ports work fine with same PREFIX.
In the distant future versioned ports will version the DATADIR correctly
for apache related anyway.
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