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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:47:28 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Subject:   Re: how to determine whether a port is a slave port?
Message-ID:  <xzp7jya12r3.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <403CCE0E.15299.687E7E2F@localhost> (Dan Langille's message of "Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:32:14 -0500")
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402240012310.27707-100000@pancho> <403CCE0E.15299.687E7E2F@localhost>

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"Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> writes:
> Yes, FreshPorts has no way of knowing that port X is a slave of port=20
> Y.  Which means it has no way of knowing to refresh the slave port=20
> information when the master port is updated.
>
> FWIW"  Some ports also do an include of the master port.  IIRC, I=20
> found at least four methods used to implement slave ports.

porteasy also has trouble with some master / slave relationships.  Off
the top of my head, www/apache2 and print/cups are amongst those it
has trouble figuring out.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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