From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 11:18:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F6537B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 41075 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Apr 2001 18:18:37 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:18:37 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: David Bushong Cc: Sean Chittenden , Calvin NG , Sean Chittenden , Jeff Kletsky , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FWIW: pkg_alert development (was: Re: pkg/port dependency tool (enclosed)) Message-ID: <20010425201837.E39540@mail.webmonster.de> References: <20010423231827.A19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424142340.E5216@brel.com> <20010424014833.B19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424210517.L12643@bushong.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010424210517.L12643@bushong.net>; from david@bushong.net on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:05:17PM -0700 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Bushong(david@bushong.net)@2001.04.24 21:05:17 +0000: > > Snag a copy from: http://www.euphorion.com/people/dbushong/pkg_upgrade > the package version guessing might fail with package names containing a dot if i see it right (such as in Login.app-x.xx)? can't we use a safer version numbering scheme like putting the version in the file /var/db/pkg/portname/VERSION which would eliminate all the unneeded heuristics one has to apply? /k -- > What can you use used tampons for? Tea bags for vampires. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de [Key] [KeyID---] [Created-] [Fingerprint-------------------------------------] GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message