Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:17:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stefan Esser <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Cc: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>, asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), andreas@klemm.gtn.com, jhs@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/gs4 Message-ID: <3543.838235878@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:05:34 %2B0200." <199607241005.MAA15006@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>
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> Maybe we should have some checksum (md5 ?)
> of each file installed from a port or
> package in the "+CONTENTS" file ?
This has been one of the enhancements on my TODO list for a long time.
It happens for more things than just ghostscript, after all, and the
typical trap with the current tools is to install versions A, B and C
of some utility. At some point, you decide that you don't need the
dreck from A and B around and you pkg_delete then, handily wiping out
the shared files for C in the process ("where'd my emacs go?!") :-) If
there was proper checksumming, the new binaries for C would stay and
only those which weren't replaced in A and B would go.
Like I said, it's been on my TODO list for a long time. :-) I'd always
wanted to simply re-write the tools rather than add enhancements like
this, but I guess at this point I might consider the enhacement
instead. AFTER I take my post-2.1.5 vacation, that is. :-)
Jordan
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