Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:23:53 -0700 From: Wim Lewis <wiml@omnigroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Naming a locally-built version of a package Message-ID: <6C655B93-082B-4782-872B-F411BA722F85@omnigroup.com> In-Reply-To: <mailman.111.1436875203.41664.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.111.1436875203.41664.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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On 14 Jul 2015, at 09:50 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: > As I said above, usually people just use the original port name with > their own modifications, and it's mostly because of dependency = tracking > like this. That makes sense (and in my case is what I'd want to do anyway; my local = version of Foo *is* Foo, just with some local tweaks). Is $PORTREVISION a good place to note the presence and revision of my = local changes (e.g., as "o3" since only one letter is allowed)? Is pkg's = version-number-comparison behavior documented somewhere--- how it orders = alphabetics and what it does with the VERSION and REVISION parts of the = version string? > it is certainly possible to tell pkg(8) not to mess with locally = customized packages. See pkg-lock(8) That looks useful, thanks for the pointer! > The mechanism is not > entirely as smooth as we would like it to be, and pkg(8) should grow = the > intelligence to understand that replacing a package 'Foo with option > bar' with a package 'Foo without option bar' is something that should = be > avoided wherever possible. Would it be reasonable to treat local patches as options? That is, my = local variant of Foo-1.3_5 would still be named Foo-1.3_5.o3, but would = have the option SPIFFY_LOCAL_PATCH. I've noticed that pkg records the = build options of packages but it's not clear to me what it does with = that information (if anything; is this just there to support future = behavior that hasn't been implemented yet?).
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