Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:51:55 +0100 From: Pawel Wieleba <P.Wieleba@iem.pw.edu.pl> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Subject: Re: [port update] print/foomatic-db; how to name the package with the current date Message-ID: <20050304175155.GA73021@volt.iem.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <20050304172810.097676a1@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <20050304150431.GA58539@volt.iem.pw.edu.pl> <20050304172810.097676a1@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:28:10PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > 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 ? I've alread checked it and I cannot use it like this: PKGNAMESUFFIX= -`date "+%Y%m%d"` Simply - error;-) > > > 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. Of course, therefore I ask what mechanism I should use to enclose the date to a Makefile. > 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. Yes, but it's a lot of administrative duties, and probably useless. The whole database is imported direrctly from CVS. > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" Thx for a comment. Pawel Wieleba
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