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From: "ewdafa" <ewdafa@ewdafa.b0rk.co.uk>
To: "James Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net>
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Subject: Re: @comment ORIGIN
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:22:07 -0000
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Cheers thats exactly it :-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net>
To: "ewdafa" <ewdafa@ewdafa.b0rk.co.uk>
Cc: <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: @comment ORIGIN


> 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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