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Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:43:16 -0700
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: package tools into ports/ (was: Re: Bzipped?)
Message-ID:  <20020915204316.GT91593@procyon.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <3D7DFA6B.566DC85B@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:58:03PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 1. Hypothetic pkg_install port should have sources in place, so that
> it is available right after cvsup.

Of course.

> 2. Once installed, the port shouldn't register itself with
> /var/db/pkg, becase (a) we don't want zillion versions of
> pkg_install-xx.yy.zz cluttering /var/db/pkg and (b) no installed
> package should depend on a specific pkg_install package - it's ports
> only thing. I'd suggest to separate pkg_install version
> checking/updating routine into special target in bsd.port.mk and put
> this target even before pre-everything in _FETCH_SEQ.

I don't think it is necessary to have this kind of hack.

I will be working on this later this week and will post a patch
to ports@ for consideration.  Can you see about whether the patch
you committed can be MFC'd for 4.7?

re.
-- 
wca

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