Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:23:46 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports need a uniq identifier, do you have any suggestion? Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=Z5C=_JZ6B9vut-g9mdDq8c6AN_e1TaPAyEFQYkjBBvA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120611043001.GO60433@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20120611043001.GO60433@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On 10 June 2012 21:30, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the ports tree we lack a unique identifier, while we could live without it
> until now, it is more than needed for 2 upcoming features: pkgng and stage
> directory support.
>
> unique means something that will always be the same what ever the options are
> and what ever the runtime they use are. But also means unique in term of in the
> whole ports no other package will share its identifier.
>
> currently the only equivalent of this in the ports tree is the origin of a
> package, which will no more be unique with the upcoming sub package support
> (coming along with stage directory) aka 1 origin to produce n package.
Perhaps we could introduce UNIQUE_ORIGIN which is
${ORIGIN}_${SUBPACKAGE} or something of the sort?
--
Eitan Adler
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