Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:11:27 -0700 From: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> To: Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@highsecure.ru> Cc: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: port renaming Message-ID: <CAEJt7haPtdqbH8RPAYZaMY43F0doN7xtr%2Bz94xv-89rz9%2BzcXQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFb6gngdDLLDiQU%2BwmYE17zmuo3YU=_e_7ruvDVufxGmQuk1=A@mail.gmail.com> References: <55A7B826.2060609@citrin.ru> <CAFb6gngdDLLDiQU%2BwmYE17zmuo3YU=_e_7ruvDVufxGmQuk1=A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@highsecure.ru> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> > wrote: > > > > Port maintainers and port commiters, when > PORTNAME/PKGNAMEPREFIX/PKGNAMESUFFIX is changed, please note this change in > commit log and for important ports also in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Any rename > affect at leas some of FreeBSD users and > > > > Depends in our local ports was broken and I spent some time to figure > out why. > > It turns out, that PORTNAME for graphics/gd was changed in r324437. > > No singe word about this rename was added to commit message or > UPDATING... > > From the perspective of pkg things are even worse, as pkg can no > longer detect that the renamed package is a replacement for some > existing one. It breaks many stuff and solver could hardly help to > resolve this in a pain-less matter. We need something like 'Replace' > or 'Obsolete' field badly. 'UPDATING' does NOT help to solve this task > at all. > We already have the 'MOVED' file. Does it help? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Cheers, Henry
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