Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:51:00 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, eivind@yes.no Cc: sblee@eeyore.taz.tac.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bulding new versions Message-ID: <19980302085100.02202@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199803012300.PAA10084@baloon.mimi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 03:00:26PM -0800 References: <19980301213755.51316@follo.net> <199803012300.PAA10084@baloon.mimi.com>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 03:00:26PM -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> > > * I didn't quite get your m4-problem - it might be that you have a wrong > * version installed compared to what things depend on? Dependencies for ports > * are on explict versions, which can often be annoying. > > It's only for packages though. Not quite true. 'make deinstall' will only match the exact version you've got in your ports tree, for instance. (I hope I'm not wrong here...) > (By the way, If someone can make think of a way to make packages depend > smarter, I want to hear it!) Check for versions. Version should be split after last -, and then compared group by group, numeric compare if numbers, value-compare if alphabetical. This would require us to re-number ports that consider versions as fractions. We _could_ also elect to instead include a date in each pkg-dir... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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