From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 22 19:20:25 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 147D116A41F; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:20:25 +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 38A0643D49; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:20:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA95C36F; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:20:23 -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 05906-07; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:20:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625ECC369; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:20:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.55.0.99] (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F673D3B; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:20:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:20:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <43AAB623.9327.14A39D97@dan.langille.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20051222191516.GA31197@soaustin.net> References: <43AA4A03.27311.12FD3FCC@dan.langille.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: Kris Kennaway , 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 19:20:25 -0000 On 22 Dec 2005 at 13:15, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:38:59AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > It'll be interesting to produce quite a bit of design and code to > > cater for just a few ports. > > As for portsmon, I plan to not worry about it :-) I don't really think > it's worth the work to track it for these edge cases. (Of course, portsmon > evaluates everything assuming i386, but that's another story). For FreshPorts, it does confuse the users: http://www.freshports.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=1078&t=1078 I'll try for evaluating BROKEN and FORBIDDEN for all OSVERSION and ARCH values first. Then I'll look at whether or not it's feasible to worry about silly situations such as this. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/