From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 7 11:19: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F4237B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:19:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from grsu.by (grsu.by [194.158.202.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B06D043FEA for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:19:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@grsu.by) Received: (qmail 13776 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2003 19:14:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grsu.by) (grog@195.50.13.201) by grsu.by with SMTP; 7 Feb 2003 19:14:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3E440393.3080506@grsu.by> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:05:55 +0200 From: Yury Tarasievich User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020829 X-Accept-Language: be, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types... References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have yet another suggestion regarding packaging subsystem -- could it be possible to extend pkg_* functionality (and, in fact, ports functionality) to recognize modest set of wildcards in dependencies names? It seems pretty unreasonable to have various subrevisions of, say, libiconv, pulled as packages dependencies ending with libiconv-1.7_5, libiconv-1.8, libiconv-1.8_1 and installed. And still another package would complain about having no -1.8_2. I'd like to see in dependencies not only like "was built with -1.9_2abc, so wants it", but also something like -1.5+ (obviously 1.5.0 and newer), -* (any version will do). Perhaps something else. At least to have possibility of specifying that, if this can't go into official ports. Does it seem reasonable? Tim Kientzle wrote: > The attached patch modifies the pkg_install > tools to inspect the file contents--rather than the [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message