Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:45:15 -0800 (PST) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <200003300345.TAA12994@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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I haven't gotten much response. Are people really okay with this? It
is a pretty large change, it will touch almost every single Makefile
in the tree and will change the way the Makefiles look forever.
A mandatory VERSION variable separate from DISTNAME/PKGNAME will be
added, to have something like
PORTNAME= foo
VERSION= 1.2
As I said, these two variables will be mandatory, and DISTNAME and
PKGNAME will be defined in bsd.port.mk as ${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}.
The PKGNAME will not be overridable; it will be an error for a port
to define it. The port can define DISTNAME if necessary.
This will help ensure that the ${PKGNAME} will have correct formats
(well, you can always put a "-" in VERSION, but that's far easier to
find than going through a list of packages/All or packages/Latest).
I'm also thinking of changing the pkg_* tools to put package info into
/var/db/pkg/${PORTNAME}/ver-${VERSION} (instead of the current
/var/db/pkg/${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}) so we can have real upgrade
support, but that's still in the future.
-PW
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