Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:28:10 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Pawel Wieleba <P.Wieleba@iem.pw.edu.pl> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [port update] print/foomatic-db; how to name the package with the current date Message-ID: <20050304172810.097676a1@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20050304150431.GA58539@volt.iem.pw.edu.pl> References: <20050304150431.GA58539@volt.iem.pw.edu.pl>
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:04:32 +0100 Pawel Wieleba <P.Wieleba@iem.pw.edu.pl> wrote: > Hi! > I've posted a PR: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/78397 > > Therefore I've got a question. > As stated on http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html > devel/foomatic-db is updated daily, therefore I would like to have an > up-to-date database during port installation (fetching) on my machine, not > just the date stated in devel/foomatic-db/Makefile. > I would like to do this automaticaly and I would like that this > information (meaning date) will be added to the created package name. > > Do you have an idea how to accomplish this? > It is very simple to download the current foomatic-db but I have no idea > how to include the date in the package name. PKGNAMESUFFIX ? > It would be nice if > portupgrade could inform me if there is a newer database 'version' > available. portupgrade can't do it for you, since it has uses the information from Ports Collection Makefiles. You could do a helper script that would download the db. You could put somewhere on you website a distinfo file and update it daily and make the port fetch it and add it to the distinfo. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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