Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:42:39 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Steven Kreuzer <stevenkreuzer@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming a Port Message-ID: <20071213164238.GA59146@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <7097B23E-E266-419B-A42A-CC8A3B113A6D@yahoo.com> References: <7097B23E-E266-419B-A42A-CC8A3B113A6D@yahoo.com>
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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:31:01AM -0500, Steven Kreuzer wrote: > Greetings- >=20 > I am the maintainer of the mysqltoolkit port. Recently, the project=20 > underwent a name change and is now maatkit. > The application has also undergone some updates so I would like to update= =20 > the port to the latest version. >=20 > While I am sure I am not the first person to ever have this problem, its = a=20 > new one for me so I figured I would ping the > list and see what people have to say. >=20 > Is this the best way to go about this? >=20 > 1) Have someone mark mysqltoolkit as DEPRECATED > 2) Take my port, rename it to maatkit and make the changes necessary to t= he=20 > Makefile, etc > 3) Submit the port and have it checked in. >=20 > However, do I need to provide some sort of migration path for existing=20 > users of mysqltoolkit? Is that even possible? > If so, how do I go about doing it. >=20 > Any advice or guidance is greatly appreciated. The MOVED file exists for this very reason. You will need to submit an update that changes the current port to the new name and adds an entry to MOVED. A repocopy will be performed to copy the history of the port to the new location. Once that's done, the changes will be applied to the new copy, the entry added to MOVED, and the old port removed. -- Brooks --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHYWD+XY6L6fI4GtQRAu6dAKDlixfMPFjJvA7EKp0Y7kQIgosqmwCgqKkl atdmF7S1e9unW4UNf8fh5kY= =LC/Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/--
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