Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:10:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Kratzer <ck@cksoft.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: versioned ports naming convention Message-ID: <20030710130831.A84774@majakka.cksoft.de> In-Reply-To: <3F0D45C1.40803@fillmore-labs.com> References: <3F0D45C1.40803@fillmore-labs.com>
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Hi, On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Hi all, > > just a quick question: > > When there are multiple versioned ports (like www/apache13 > and www/apache2) PORTNAME shouldn't be versioned (i.e. apache), > that's how I understand 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>; > > Examples are: > mail/cyrus-imapd, mail/cyrus-imapd2 and mail/cyrus-imapd22 > security/cyrus-sasl and security/cyrus-sasl2 > mail/exim-old, mail/exim > devel/autoconf, devel/autoconf213, devel/autoconf253, devel/autoconf257 > devel/automake, devel/automake14, devel/automake15, devel/automake17 > > Now Christian Kratzer told me that this policy is about to change: > <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2003-July/002646.html>; no policy change. Just a practice that seems to be gaining popularity in the ports tree. The openldap ports were renamed with the introduction of the openldap21 port in february. Please see http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=61638+0+archive/2003/freebsd-ports/20030302.freebsd-ports http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=116796+0+archive/2003/freebsd-ports/20030302.freebsd-ports > Did I misinterpret the porter's handbook or do I overlook the advantages > of having versioned PORTNAMEs? I too prefer the practice as promoted by the porters handbook. Greetings Christian -- CK Software GmbH Christian Kratzer, Schwarzwaldstr. 31, 71131 Jettingen Email: ck@cksoft.de Phone: +49 7452 889-135 Open Software Solutions, Network Security Fax: +49 7452 889-136 FreeBSD spoken here!
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