From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 07:16:23 2004 Return-Path: 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 BCCA116A4CF for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:16:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from black.imgsrc.co.jp (black.imgsrc.co.jp [210.226.20.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E41D43D46 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:16:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by black.imgsrc.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C69250BD6 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:16:18 +0900 (JST) Received: from black.imgsrc.co.jp (black.imgsrc.co.jp [IPv6:2001:218:422:2::9999]) by black.imgsrc.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1ED850BC8 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:16:16 +0900 (JST) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:16:16 +0900 Message-ID: <7mbrhffqyn.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> From: Jun Kuriyama To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040811172245.I54010@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <20040811172245.I54010@ync.qbhto.arg> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd 0.1 Subject: Re: Projects with multiple versions in our ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:16:23 -0000 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 // IMG SRC, Inc. // FreeBSD Project