Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:23:02 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: LATEST_LINK not in index Message-ID: <49CE6B06.8080402@bsdforen.de>
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I'm working on a binary package upgrade tool that gets all required information from the INDEX file downloadable from the package repositories. This means you do not need a local copy of the ports tree to use it. The only information required and missing is the LATEST_LINK. Normally this is easily done by stripping the package name of the version, but some ports define a proprietary LATEST_LINK to avoid conflicts. This leads to the following problem, my program has to do some guessing and in these cases it fails: # pkg_upgrade firefox3 # # pkg_upgrade firefox www/firefox;firefox-2.0.0.20_4,1 www/firefox3;firefox-3.0.7,1 # It either matches none or more than one port. I could build some guessing logic, but the real solution would be to have the LATEST_LINK name in the index file. Is there any chance a LATEST_LINK column will be added if I file a PR?
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