Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:43:00 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting Message-ID: <20050114224300.GW1033@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <41E843B7.3060403@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050113062739.GA28658@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501131148520.25402-100000@pancho> <20050113180504.GA26064@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050114130404.250d6e26@apircalabu.dsd.ro> <20050114112918.GF69532@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050114211206.GF1175@k7.mavetju> <20050114215559.GA71927@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050114220344.GH1175@k7.mavetju> <41E843B7.3060403@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> | On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:55:59PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> |
> |>This keeps getting suggested under various names, but you need to
> |>solve the compatibility problem.
> |
> |
> | Isn't that resolved by modifying ports/sysutils/pkg_install and
> | noting it in ports/UPDATING?
>
> Resolved is probably not the correct word as this will trigger a flurry
> of emails from -RELEASE users. A solution might be to modify
> bsd.port.mk to detect OSVERSIONs that don't have the fix, then add a
> dependency on sysutils/pkg_install. The problem then comes to package
> users who may not have a /usr/ports at all. If they don't know to use
> the pkg_install tools in LOCALBASE, they'll get package installation
> problems. I'm not sure what the best solution for them is.
This OSVERSION solution looks the way to go.
For the packages, pkg_delete already gives an warning when it sees
an unknown @command:
warnx("%s: unknown command '%s' (package tools out of date?)",
But it doesn't say what to do (this is version a.b.c, check
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/packages/blaat for newer versions)
Edwin
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