From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 22 11:39:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 09E6716A41F; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:39:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2336843D6B; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:39:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EC2C395; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:39:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28382-01; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:39:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28C3C386; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:38:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.55.0.99] (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2DA3D3B; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:38:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: Thierry Thomas Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:38:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <43AA4A03.6839.12FD4058@dan.langille.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20051221215337.GK87723@graf.pompo.net> References: <43A97F91.25406.FE677CB@dan.langille.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: varying PORTVERSION with OSVERSION X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:39:15 -0000 On 21 Dec 2005 at 22:53, Thierry Thomas wrote: > Le Mer 21 d=E9c 05 =E0 22:15:13 +0100, Dan Langille > =E9crivait=A0: > > It came to my attention today that PORTVERSION can vary with > > OSVERSION. Is this a recommended practice? For that matter can it > > vary with ARCH? > > I don't know if there exists a policy about that, but this is possible > for binaries ports (e.g. misc/dnetc or x11/nvidia-driver). It was x11/nvidia-driver that was brought to my attention: http://www.freshports.org/phorum/read.php?f=3D1&i=3D1078&t=3D1078 > > I ask mainly because FreshPorts does not cater for this at present. > > Given that I'm now working on making FreshPorts both OSVERSION and > > ARCH independent, I wanted to gather more information before > > proceeding with the design. I was preparing to make FreshPorts aware > > that FORBIDDEN and BROKEN may vary with OSVERSION and ARCH, and > > nothing else. > > It would be great if the statistics of Broken / Forbidden / etc. were > displayed by branches, thanks! So far, for the most partm I'm thinking the current status will remain. The website will look like it does now, but, for example, you'll see additional information at http://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver/ ; the question I have to answer first is: how to display multiple versions for one port. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/