Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:16:16 +0900 From: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Projects with multiple versions in our ports tree Message-ID: <7mbrhffqyn.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20040811172245.I54010@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <20040811172245.I54010@ync.qbhto.arg>
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At Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:44:02 +0000 (UTC),
Doug Barton wrote:
> The way that we've traditionally handled this is to have one canonical
> "foo" port, with various "fooNN" versions as needed. The negative part
> of this is that when the older version of "foo" becomes obsolete and one
> of the newer versions becomes the canonical one, we've had to do a lot
> of swapping around, repo-copying, etc. in order to handle the situation.
> At best this is sub optimal, and at worse it causes pointless delays and
> confusion. It also causes pointless upgrades for users who already have
> "fooNN" installed when "fooNN" becomes just plain "foo." I'd
> like to propose a different solution.
I'm using "foo" port as mainstream version and "fooXX" port as forked
/ obsoleted versions (and I think this tradition is still alive, isn't
it?)
Repo-copy is not swiss army knife. We should use it only when it is
actually required.
--
Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> // IMG SRC, Inc.
<kuriyama@FreeBSD.org> // FreeBSD Project
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