Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:52:47 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <20020711005247.GE82744@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020709231820.GA49510@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020709161953.GA69779@lpt.ens.fr> <XFMail.20020709124717.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20020709171417.GA69932@lpt.ens.fr> <20020709231820.GA49510@gits.dyndns.org>
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message resent due to mta misconfigation. On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:18:20AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:14:17PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > [snip] > > That seems rather ambitious, and too drastic a change, to me. What > > I'd like to see is probably more like, the gfoo port needs gtk+ 1.2.6 > > or above, but not gtk+ 2.0 and above (incompatible) and not gtk+ 1.2.5 > > or below (buggy). There should be some way to specify this in the > > makefile of the port, so that any port-management program like > > portupgrade can make use of the information. > > take a look at NetBSD pkg (aka ports) system, they have this kind > of version handling. > > > (3) Automatically generate the +CONTENTS file by first doing a "fake" > > install in a temporary directory (assuming the port honours > > $PREFIX), then moving the contents to their final destination (a la > > gentoo). If your temporary location is on the same filesystem as > > the final one, it won't even take additional disk space, and very > > little additional time. Is there any obvious drawback with doing > > this? > > that's what OpenBSD port system has... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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