Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:16:16 -0500 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: ewdafa <ewdafa@ewdafa.b0rk.co.uk> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: @comment ORIGIN Message-ID: <3A7999E0.3EE8B62E@thehousleys.net> References: <005201c08ba8$3ac799a0$0a00a8c0@reevolved.net>
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ewdafa wrote:
>
> Ello,
> The recent addition of the ORIGIN comment is great. It's allowed me to whip
> up a ports checking tool that checks out /var/db/pkg/ for installed packages
> and then looks under /usr/ports for updated versions of the packages. BUT,
> there are some inconsistencies.. these are probably down to the package
> maintainers themselves.
> I found that mysql323-client and mysql323-server both have a strange
> Makefile scheme thats different to other ports e.g.
> mysql323-client:
> PORTNAME= ${MASTERPORTNAME:S/-server/-client/g}
> mysql323-server:
> PORTNAME?= ${MASTERPORTNAME}
>
> It seems the client is just a kind of wrapper around the server, but, it
> would still be handy to have the proper information in there. Hm.
> This at the moment is the only thing breaking my app, apart from that it
> seems to work quite well.
>
That is a master/slave port. There are several of them. What you need
to do, should do, is "make -V PORTNAME". Check the man page, but -V
will print the value the makefile creates for any variable.
housley@baby:~ {2} cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-client/
housley@baby:...s/databases/mysql323-client {3} make -V PORTNAME
mysql-client
That is the best way to get any of these. Hope this helps.
Jim
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