Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:17:52 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb+freebsdports@zabbadoz.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/54202: [MAINTAINER PATCH] unify port net/openldap20 with net/openldap22 Message-ID: <3F0C9490.4050701@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0307092024280.59055@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <3F0A09E7.9080502@fillmore-labs.com> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0307092024280.59055@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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Hi Bjoern, Thanks for your feedback. I CC'ed ports@FreeBSD.org so that we can get some more opinions. As the maintainer of port net/openldap20 my first priority is to keep my customers happy, of course, so I appreciate feedback. Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > >>- package name is openldap again - should have never been renamed > > NO ! Please leave this as openldap20. Else you will confuse even > more people - like with haveing alpha quality code in ports tree > w/o noting at either install or in description (talking about > openldap22 port). The openldap20 used to be called openldap (and not openldap2) in the times it lived in net/openldap2. The same is true for www/apache13 and www/apache2, mail/cyrus-imapd, mail/cyrus-imapd2 and mail/cyrus-imapd22, security/cyrus-sasl and security/cyrus-sasl2, mail/exim-old, mail/exim and multiple other ports. It is also consistent with the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook, 4.2.4 Package Naming Conventions: <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html#PORTING-PKGNAME>; > People might think this is the main openldap port which is openldap21. > openldap20 is EOL and 22 is alpha. A quick survey on ports gives: find /usr/ports -name 'Makefile' -exec sed -ne 's,^.*:\${PORTSDIR}/\(net/openldap[0-9]*\).*$,\1,p' {} \; | sort | uniq -c 5 net/openldap 25 net/openldap12 37 net/openldap20 13 net/openldap21 So, as far as ports is concerned, net/openldap20 is still the most important of them. net/openldap22 is 2.2.0.a, which is clearly an alpha, but it's a pretty stable piece of software and the people at OpenLDAP do a great job - I'm running my own servers on openldap-2.2.0.a. Port mail/cyrus-imapd22 for example is alpha too, like www/apache2 was beta when it joined the ports tree. Should I put "This release is meant for testing purposes only, it is not for general use." in pkg-message (or pkg-descr) to warn people? I can find no port that did this, though... Regards Oliver
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