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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 23:38:12 +0100
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP:  gettext
Message-ID:  <20040123223812.GE84157@voodoo.oberon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040123170901.D40401@blues.jpj.net>
References:  <20040123170901.D40401@blues.jpj.net>

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:18:02PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> I've tried to update gettext in the ports collection, and a problem has
> turned up.  As described to me by Joe Marcus Clarke, portupgrade will fail
> because ports/devel/gettext (the new version which no ports use yet) is in
> conflict with ports/devel/gettext-old (the previous version which I set
> the ports to depend upon).
>=20
> I believe that a line
>=20
> 	HOLD_PKGS =3D ['gettext-*']
>=20
> in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf may prevent portupgrade (but not
> necessarily portversion) from trying to upgrade gettext.  Alternatively,
> I've prepared a patch which bumps the libintl version and PORTREVISIONs of
> ports that use gettext, so they depend on the new version.  It needs
> testing and review.  It's at
> <URL:http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/ports/gettext-dependencies.diff>.
>=20
> The updated gettext port may be temporarily "moved" to gettext-new and
> ports/devel/gettext returned to version 0.12.1 which we've been using for
> awhile.  Also, the new gettext port ought to be updated to 0.13.1.  I've
> started work on that but I have to leave the computer now.

Why did you create this *-old *-new versions and not just
updated gettext and bumped PORTREVISIONs for depended ports ?

-Kirill

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