Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 01:49:14 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: synchronizing the world and ports (repost) Message-ID: <199901160949.BAA47408@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Hey, doesn't anyone have a suggestion? ;) I'm leaning towards the "make install in src/share/mk" idea.... Satoshi ------- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:48:02 -0800 (PST) To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: synchronizing the world and ports From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Hi, I think we should put bsd.port*.mk under /usr/ports. The reason why I was reluctant to do this was because that's not the end of the story, and could give people less incentive to get the upgrade kits. But I think I've figured out a way to solve that problem. We can have the upgrade kits install a file in /var/db/pkg with "version number". The version number is a nondecreasing integer that I change when there is a change to the upgrade kits. The new bsd.port.mk under /usr/ports will check the version against itself and people will be asked to install a new upgrade kit first if the version is too small. However, there is a slight problem with this -- the real -current followers (those that do a regular "make world") will be shunned. I need to find a way to upgrade the version automatically. Ideally, this will be done when the user upgrades the required component (/usr/libexec/elf/ld in the latest case) but I'm afraid that would be too hard, and I'll settle for something that is done by "make world" itself. Any ideas? A new entry in src/Makefile.inc*? Something in src/share/mk/Makefile? (Which is probably not a very good idea, as people are used to do a "make install" in there and that will only install empty bsd.port*.mk files.) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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