Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:23:21 +0900 From: OKAZAKI Tetsurou <okazaki@be.to> To: garyj@peedub.muc.de Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, knu@idaemons.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: versioning system (Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ElectricFence ...) Message-ID: <86u2hz2qqe.wl@dolphin.be.to> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:35:36 %2B0100" <200003220935.KAA09544@peedub.muc.de> References: <vqck8iwueqg.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200003220935.KAA09544@peedub.muc.de>
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Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> wrote:
> Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami writes:
> >I've also thought about adding a mandatory VERSION variable separate
> >from DISTNAME/PKGNAME, to have something like
> >
> >PORTNAME= foo
> >VERSION= 1.2
> >
> >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.)
> >
> >At least 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).
> >===
> >
> >If nobody has any objections, I will go sweep through the tree and
> >make these changes.
> >
> Wait a minute. What about ports like editors/xemacs21 which are used
> as the front-end to other ports ? The Makefile defines PKGNAME as
> ${LANGPREFIX}xemacs${PKGNAMEEXT}-21.1.9 there. Not being able to
> override PKGNAME will break this (and probably other) port(s).
Use PORTNAME?
PORTNAME= ${LANGPREFIX}xemacs${PKGNAMEEXT}
--
Tetsurou
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