Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 15:50:22 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for feedback: REQUIRES_OS_VERSION feature. Message-ID: <199605301450.PAA01580@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199605301440.KAA09760@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at May 30, 96 10:40:08 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In reply to Bill/Carolyn Pechter who said > > Right now I'm working on generating some products and I think this feature > is quite good. Perhaps a package description should do something like > product a requires xpm.tgz > 2.3 and FreeBSD_base_os >2.0. > > How's this look? Doesn't the ports setup already do this? What I'm suggesting is a finer grained list of OS features since a lot of them would be constant across releases. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199605301450.PAA01580>