Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:27:38 +0100 From: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: PKGNAMEPREFIX for Java ports Message-ID: <20040308162738.GA39617@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr> In-Reply-To: <404C95DA.6050606@noc.ntua.gr> References: <20040308153418.GA33232@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <404C95DA.6050606@noc.ntua.gr>
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:48:42PM +0200, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Many users nowadays use portupgrade to update their ports, myself > included. Isn't this proposed scheme going to require that portupgrade > be taught about how to properly update java ports (change the ports name > and stuff)? > > Just some food for thought. Well I agree that's the main problem. There is only a problem when you change your JDK for another Java version (e.g. 1.3 -> 1.4). Anyway, it is the same as for the recent Ruby/portupgrade issue we had (switching from Ruby 1.6 to Ruby 1.8). Renaming the package is not the best solution IMHO. Let's consider again jakarta-commons-logging. If I rename my package to java14-jakarta-commons-logging, users may think it is compiled with JDK 1.4 logging API support, which is not actually the case. So, the way I see it, a better practice would be: $ pkgdb -Fa [everything depending on JDK 1.3 will now depend on JDK 1.4] $ portupgrade -fr java/jdk14 -x java/jdk14 [everything depending on java/jdk14 will get rebuilt] But that's maybe too heavy when only one or two ports are concerned. In such a case, I would recommend the following (excuse any wrong command here, as we are talking about something that does not exit, and thus I can't really test before posting): $ pkg_info -xqo java13- >/tmp/ports.toberebuilt [list all concerned ports. '-o' lists the "origin" port of the package] $ pkgdb -Fa [everything depending on JDK 1.3 will now depend on JDK 1.4] $ portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/ports.toberebuilt` [rebuild concerned ports] I don't know much about the implementation of pkgdb but maybe those steps could be enforced by the Fix (-F) command as you suggest in your message. BTW, pkgdb is part of the base system so this would not only affect portupgrade users. Thanks for your comments. Hervehome | help
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