From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 18 17:02:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDCB16A418 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:02:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5E213C45E for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:02:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8475C5191A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:02:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:02:15 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070918180215.1eede8dc@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: References: <46EFE5E6.9000602@cosmozilla.net> <20070918172922.32c0b904@gumby.homeunix.com.> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: autoconf/automake guru wanted [gnuplot-4.0 with patches] 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: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:02:19 -0000 On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:48:13 -0500 "Jeremy Messenger" wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:29:22 -0500, RW > wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:51:18 -0700 > > Ted Thomas wrote: > > > >> I'm sorry if this sounds like a complaint. I just spent 2 days > >> attempting to salvage a sane 6.2 development box which does not use > >> X-Windows, because I stumbled into the Xorg quagmire. Recognizing > >> that the ports system is itself a remarkable achievement, I would > >> distill my concern down to one thing: naming conventions. > >> > >> Example 1: autoconf/automake > >> > >> autoconf-2.59_3 = up-to-date with port > >> autoconf-2.61_2 = up-to-date with port > > These two are no problem, they are different ports. > > > >> autoconf-wrapper-20070404 = up-to-date with port > >> .. > >> automake-wrapper-20070404 = up-to-date with port > > > > This shouldn't happen, do you have multiple entries in /var/db/pkg? > > Did you misread it? :-) The *-wrapper is correct and normal. > Yes, I just saw auto****-wrapper-20070404 twice. In that case there's no issue here at all.