Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:36:32 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: 'All' versus 'Latest' Message-ID: <400B34A0.2080507@acm.org>
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As I understand it, the purpose of the "All" and "Latest" directories
in the ports area of ftp.freebsd.org is to allow one to type simply:
pkg_add -r emacs
to fetch the newest version of emacs, rather than requiring
pkg_add -r emacs-21.3
That's fine and easy to understand, but doesn't seem to be
very consistently followed.
After several hours of work, I've come up with a C routine
that can almost always identify whether a name comes from
the "All" or "Latest" directories. Out of 16,000+
names, it currently mis-classifies the following 32:
Names that are in "Latest" but appear to have version numbers
(most of these could be fixed by dropping the final '-'):
de-ispell-20001109
de-ispell-alt-19991219
de-ispell-neu-20001109
docbook-241
docbook-3.0
docbook-310
docbook-400
docbook-410
efax-0.9a
gl-117
p5-DBI-137
Names that are in "All" but whose version numbers don't seem to match
any particular pattern (in particular, these all either begin
with a letter or contain multiple letters):
arena-i18n-beta3b
cnews-cr.g_6
ithought-a5
ja-samba-2.2.8a.j1.1_3
jabber-msn-1.2.8.rc1
ko-hpscat-1.3jshin
ko-linuxdoc-sgml-1.6bh2
ldapmodule-1.10alpha3_4
mingw32-bin-msvcrt-r3.2.a2.4
mtx-1.2.17rel
musixtex-T98
omi-a9
p5-Tcl-b2
p5-TclTk-b2
pathchar-a1
slashem-tty-0.0.6E.4F.8
tac_plus-F4.0.4_3
tei-guidelines-p3
tei-guidelines-p4
tei-p3_1
tei-p4_2
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