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Subject: final call: VERSION variable
From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
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I haven't gotten much response.  Are people really okay with this?  It
is a pretty large change, it will touch almost every single Makefile
in the tree and will change the way the Makefiles look forever.

A mandatory VERSION variable separate from DISTNAME/PKGNAME will be
added, to have something like

PORTNAME=	foo
VERSION=	1.2

As I said, these two variables will be mandatory, and DISTNAME and
PKGNAME will be defined in bsd.port.mk as ${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}.
The PKGNAME will not be overridable; it will be an error for a port
to define it.  The port can define DISTNAME if necessary.

This will help ensure that the ${PKGNAME} will have correct formats
(well, you can always put a "-" in VERSION, but that's far easier to
find than going through a list of packages/All or packages/Latest).

I'm also thinking of changing the pkg_* tools to put package info into
/var/db/pkg/${PORTNAME}/ver-${VERSION} (instead of the current
/var/db/pkg/${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}) so we can have real upgrade
support, but that's still in the future.

-PW


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