Date: 21 Mar 2000 14:42:47 -0800 From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: versioning system (Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ElectricFence ...) Message-ID: <vqck8iwueqg.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA"'s message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:04:21 %2B0900" References: <200003200237.SAA95508@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqchfe2f0vg.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000320084714.A96452@dragon.nuxi.com> <vqcu2i1ec5e.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <864sa16kai.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
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* From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>
* But finally, I've successfully got one on VMware (!) last weekend.
* So I guess I'll be able to resume the work. Sorry for the delay.
Ok.
* As you are the ports master, you might want to contact Hubert Feyrer
* <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> who is the pkgsrc leader and knows
* everything about NetBSD's pkgsrc updates.
*
* Once he suggested that the NetBSD pkgsrc team and the FreeBSD ports
* team should join hands and the easiest way to merge would be to base
* NetBSD's pkg_* tools and bsd.pkg.mk, then make FreeBSD's chages after
* NetBSD imported FreeBSD's stuff (around early in 1997) over them.
* That's what I've been thinking too.
Hmm....
* Also, I'd mention that NetBSD's pkgsrc supports not only NetBSD but
* also Linux, Solaris, etc. Why not just add support for FreeBSD, one
* of the easiest systems to port? :)
Are there a lot of people who use NetBSD's pkgsrc in Linux/Solaris/etc.?
* By the way, it's almost time to move to the ports list, isn't it?
You are right. (Moved.)
By the way, any comments on this? I don't think this conflicts with
anything NetBSD has done.
===
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.
In particular, bsd.port.mk will look like this:
===
.if defined(PKGNAME)
...error message
.endif
.if !defined(PORTNAME) || !defined(VERSION)
...error message
.endif
DISTNAME?= ${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}
PKGNAME= ${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}
===
Also, the ${PKGBASE} variable (used for the "Latest" link) will be
changed to just reference ${PORTNAME}.
Satoshi
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