Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:20:56 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: Recent bsd.port.mk changes Message-ID: <20030418112056.69d4832c.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1050646484.58286.108.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1050640352.58286.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030418045754.GA94741@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1050646484.58286.108.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 18 Apr 2003 02:14:44 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > The major benefit of this change is that it prevents people from
> > installing one copy of the port over an older version, thereby
> > screwing up their /var/db/pkg and possibly leaving orphan files lying
> > around. I think that is important enough that it should stay in, in
> > some form.
>
> Yes, I can see the advantage, but it now adds extra work (for me, maybe
> others). The reason I Cc'd ports was to get an idea if others thought
> the same way I did.
I do the same (it makes sure the port is PREFIX safe and it makes it
easy to check if the plist is correct).
> > In your case since the PREFIX is different they don't actually
> > conflict so one might argue that it should be allowed. I suppose
> > that's something that could be checked in bsd.port.mk by extracting
> > the prefix for the existing package from the contents file and
> > comparing to PREFIX.
>
> This would be acceptable. However, the make deinstall would still
> remove both versions. What about keeping make deinstall the same as it
> was with one exception: if you type make deinstall in a port directory,
> and the version specified by that port's Makefile is not installed (but
> another version with the same origin is), then the other version would
> be deinstalled. However, if a package is found that matches the version
> specified in the port's Makefile, then only that version is removed. We
> could then add a make deinstall-all target to handle deinstalling all
> packages with the same origin. Something like what's attached.
I like this idea.
Bye,
Alexander.
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