Date: 13 Feb 2000 18:51:50 -0800 From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> Cc: kris@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "# Version required:" Message-ID: <vqc3dqwlcmx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA"'s message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:04:15 %2B0900" References: <20000212180205.A42274@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002121805560.88574-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <86puu1prj4.wl@daemon.local.idaemons.org>
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Well, the "version required" was supposed to be a definitive version
number that sometimes can't be encoded in PKGNAME. Things like
"foobar version X.5 plus bazoolix patch Alternate.B.9". But you are
right, we should probably remove the comment for obvious cases (which
will be most). After the release, though.
* From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>
* Yes, and NetBSD's already done it. I'm looking into NetBSD's
* packages system and bsd.pkg.mk to make a plan to merge their _big_
* efforts back into FreeBSD. Yesterday I happened to make contact with
* a NetBSD developer who's in charge of the system and was told what
* they'd made over ours.
*
* They have added upgrading mechanism, version comparison mechanism,
* wildcard matching in depend's and much more. So much to learn.
I'll be very interested in hearing how they changed. 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).
-PW
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