Date: 30 Mar 2000 04:28:54 -0800 From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:38:22 -0800 (PST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003292033520.32828-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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* From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
* 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.
Yes, that is nice.
* Also a good idea, except it should probably be +VERSION for consistency
No, I wrote it that way explicitly so users can install more than one
version of the same "port" if they want. Ultimately we want to go to
something like gnu stow (the /var/opt/pkgname/{bin,share,lib...} and
the symlink tree from /usr/local) and there is no reason why we have
to restrict ourselves to one version per port.
Satoshi
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