Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:28:45 +0100 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flavor part of package origin? Message-ID: <d685c8ec-b138-8535-3cf6-46531df995ac@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20171211151037.0d2d4d62@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <slrnp2r220.209s.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <20171210202059.GX2827@home.opsec.eu> <ba865268-dba2-1cf0-9233-75e817b7dc7f@freebsd.org> <fddefb4f-5b6d-46b2-824e-744cbfbc8af0@FreeBSD.org> <20171211151037.0d2d4d62@gumby.homeunix.com>
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Am 11.12.17 um 16:10 schrieb RW via freebsd-ports:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:38:59 +0100
> Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>
>> Le 11/12/2017 à 10:12, Stefan Esser a écrit :
>>> $ pkg info -o '*setuptools*'
>>> py27-setuptools-36.5.0 devel/py-setuptools@py27
>>> py36-setuptools-36.5.0 devel/py-setuptools@py36
>>
>>
>> I really do not like the look of this. The origin always has been a
>> directory name, with this change, it would become some abstract thing.
The origin is used by tools to identify the location in the ports tree that
allows to build a package. With FLAVOR support, knowing the directory is
insufficient to build a package - for that reason the @FLAVOR notation has
been used in a few places already, e.g. in the MOVED file and for dependency
declarations.
> It's not all that abstract if you can simply strip the end part off.
The directory is /usr/ports/${origin%@*} in that case, and this stripping of
the FLAVOR is already required and used in e.g. bsd.ports.mk.
With origin@flavor, there is an alternate identifier that is equivalent to
the PKGNAME, and this information is used in port management tools, e.g.
when a port is to be rebuilt for a given PKGNAME.
Regards, STefan
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