Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:38:22 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003292033520.32828-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200003300345.TAA12994@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> I haven't gotten much response. Are people really okay with this? It
Yes.
> A mandatory VERSION variable separate from DISTNAME/PKGNAME will be
> added, to have something like
>
> PORTNAME= foo
> VERSION= 1.2
Ultimately we should have a PORTVERSION as well, which gets incremented
whenever someone makes a change to a port, e.g. fixing a bug with a patch,
enabling a new feature, etc. It would be reset to 1 whenever the distfile
version is increased. Ports could then depend on a specific FreeBSD
version of a port (e.g. we fix a bug in libfoo which was breaking the
mumble port), etc.
> 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.
Also a good idea, except it should probably be +VERSION for consistency
(how would you look up the version except by searching the directory
entries for a match on ver-* and parsing it?)
Kris
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