From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 04:11:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7268237B401 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 04:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A40143F93 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 04:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ck@cksoft.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33371FFAC3 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:11:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from majakka.cksoft.de (p508A896C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.138.137.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7493D1FFADB for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:11:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from majakka.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by majakka.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED6944B2E for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:10:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by majakka.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7AC5144B23; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by majakka.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796A144B02 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:10:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Kratzer To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3F0D45C1.40803@fillmore-labs.com> Message-ID: <20030710130831.A84774@majakka.cksoft.de> References: <3F0D45C1.40803@fillmore-labs.com> X-Spammer-Kill-Ratio: 75% MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300-cksoft-02bz on majakka.cksoft.de X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 Subject: Re: versioned ports naming convention X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:11:06 -0000 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: > > > 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: > 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!