Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 01:36:23 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg question - Difference pkg vs port Message-ID: <20140904003623.GA10423@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKFCL4Xx9MUdiTTzNcAmiGpKPnNVUfmp%2BK%2BuMpjaZzJ1cZQZyQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <op.xlmsddjrg7njmm@michael-think> <CAKFCL4UX1Z-UsJYix8RR1eSkU38j04UE3WOt7d-Wz4yZX9J9OQ@mail.gmail.com> <op.xlmwnmovg7njmm@michael-think> <CAKFCL4Xx9MUdiTTzNcAmiGpKPnNVUfmp%2BK%2BuMpjaZzJ1cZQZyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:32:48PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx> wrote: > > > "Anything that provides" I think is the key to where I started thinking > > wrong: > > > > The dependency is not "Shared libs required" libmysqlclient.so.18, > > but one specific port that provides libmysqlclient.so.18 - mysql55-client. > > > > Ports can do "provides library" dependencies. Packages can only depend on > packages. You can try to force it but you could also confuse your package > database rather badly. Why can't packages check to see if the library exists and use it if it does? RPM does something like that, although I think they go much further with that process. In this case, AFAIK the mysql client library API is stable - the 5.5 and 5.6 library versions should have the same API so the requirement to install the 5.5 package is a bit silly. (I'm dreading this e-mail taking us down the RPM path of dozens of different packages that make up one program, foo-devel, foo-libs, foo-client, etc) Gary
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