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Date:      Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:50:09 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/81922: Improve documentation of CONFLICTS in bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <200506051750.j55Ho90t040003@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Resent-Message-ID: <200506051800.j55I076P092036@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         81922
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Improve documentation of CONFLICTS in bsd.port.mk
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 05 18:00:06 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gerald Pfeifer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
	When introducing some CONFLICTS tags for the lang/gcc ports, I
	had to take some extra efforts which could have been avoided by
	better documentation.

	This is an attempt to provide such documentation.
>How-To-Repeat:
	vi $PORTSDIR/Mk/bsd.port.mk
>Fix:

Index: bsd.port.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.511
diff -u -3 -p -r1.511 bsd.port.mk
--- bsd.port.mk	17 Mar 2005 23:22:07 -0000	1.511
+++ bsd.port.mk	5 Jun 2005 17:46:14 -0000
@@ -468,10 +468,10 @@ FreeBSD_MAINTAINER=	portmgr@FreeBSD.org
 # Conflict checking.  Use if your port cannot be installed at the same time as
 # another package.
 #
-# CONFLICTS		- A list of package name patterns that the port conflicts with.
-#				  It's possible to use any shell meta-characters for pattern
-#				  matching.
-#				  E.g. apache*-1.2* apache*-1.3.[012345] apache-*+ssl_*
+# CONFLICTS		- A list of package name patterns that the port conflicts
+#				  with, separated by blanks.  The names may include shell
+#				  pattern meta-characters "*", "?", "[", "]", and "!".
+#				  Example: apache*-1.2* apache*-1.3.[012345] apache-*+ssl_*
 #
 # Various directory definitions and variables to control them.
 # You rarely need to redefine any of these except WRKSRC and NO_WRKSUBDIR.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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