Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:04:23 +0100 From: Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@highsecure.ru> To: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, vsevolod@highsecure.ru Subject: Re: port renaming Message-ID: <CAFb6gngdDLLDiQU%2BwmYE17zmuo3YU=_e_7ruvDVufxGmQuk1=A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55A7B826.2060609@citrin.ru> References: <55A7B826.2060609@citrin.ru>
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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.
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