From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 30 15:11:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD1037B7BB; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:11:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca2-07.ix.netcom.com [205.186.212.7]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA29922; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:10:46 -0500 (EST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id PAA17150; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:10:12 -0800 (PST) To: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" Cc: kris@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable References: <86aejgwf92.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 30 Mar 2000 15:10:08 -0800 In-Reply-To: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA"'s message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:15:53 +0900" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" * I don't get it... How come one wants more than two versions installed * at once? To test out the new version before deleting the older one? * 2) If their versions are compatible: Installing both of them sounds * nonsense. The latter overwrites the earlier installation and then the * pkg registry of the latter just get stale... Yes, it doesn't make much sense now. That's why I mentioned the symlink tree method for how to actually implemnet it. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message