From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Dec 16 09:34:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20604 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 09:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20591 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 09:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id MAA01999; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:33:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id MAA02732; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:33:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:33:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@espresso.eng.umd.edu To: Satoshi Asami cc: scott@statsci.com, jacs@gnome.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package names In-Reply-To: <199512160815.AAA00749@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote: [some deletions] > * I don't think it'd be good to be renaming the ports directories or not > * every time the port is updated, so I wouldn't include the package version > * in the directory name. Could put it as a variable in the ports/Makefile > * and include it in the package name generated by the Makefile? > > The version numbers are never part of the ports directories, unless > the old versions are not overwritten because the new versions are > popular but unstable/incompatible (e.g., netscape2, tcl74), so don't > worry about that. > > It is certainly possible to do something like this with the variable > "PKGNAME". Doesn't DISTNAME pretty well cover this? I'm not against improvement, if it doesn't, just being careful of adding needless clutter. > > Hmm, what do people think? Will the package directories look too > cluttered if we add this to every single package name? (Of course, > we'll delete the original from the ftp site as soon as we build the > new one, but the names will be longer....) > > Satoshi > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: