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From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
Subject: Re: docs/66775: Clarification that port names should not contain
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The following reply was made to PR docs/66775; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/66775: Clarification that port names should not contain version numbers
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:33:08 +0200

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 Hi,
 
 On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:17:31PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
 =20
 > The Committers Guide
 >   <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/p=
 orts.html#Q12.2.3.>
 > has the following sentence:
 >=20
 >   "Upgrade the copied port to the new version (remember to change the POR=
 TNAME=20
 >    so there are not duplicate ports with the same name)."
 >=20
 > Which should probably read
 >=20
 >   "Upgrade the copied port to the new version (remember to change the LAT=
 EST_LINK=20
 >    so there are not duplicate ports with the same name)."
 >=20
 > since changing the ports name is usually a bad idea.
 
 There are cases when ports have to be renamed, I don't think
 LATEST_LINK could help in this situation.  Why don't propose to
 use both, depending on purpose ?
 
 -Kirill
 
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