From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 9 15:35:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECE716A401 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3A213C480 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060621A4D87; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E0D67517C9; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:35:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:35:42 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alagarsamy Message-ID: <20070409153542.GA30917@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <461A0E98.2030003@yahoo-inc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <461A0E98.2030003@yahoo-inc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package A should replace Package B X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:35:44 -0000 --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:29:52PM +0530, Alagarsamy wrote: >=20 > I had package A and package B. Package A does all the functions of=20 > Package B and some more functions. So installing package A should=20 > replace package B. So i need to have a 'REPLACES' like directive in=20 > Makefile of Package A which says "package A should replace package B".=20 > currently I can't find 'REPLACES' directive. Is there any otherway we=20 > can achieve this ? Not really, we only have support for this when one package is removed from the tree and merged into another package (/usr/ports/MOVED). Kris --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGl1OWry0BWjoQKURApXCAKCI4hPrbLPSIPIisf3aWjNixq6/0ACdHQo+ mD3CVHp2qWxIC1mk/lkDhQk= =QyNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--