Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:23:03 +0100 From: Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@highsecure.ru> To: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: port renaming Message-ID: <55A7E877.3040802@highsecure.ru> In-Reply-To: <CAEJt7haPtdqbH8RPAYZaMY43F0doN7xtr%2Bz94xv-89rz9%2BzcXQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <55A7B826.2060609@citrin.ru> <CAFb6gngdDLLDiQU%2BwmYE17zmuo3YU=_e_7ruvDVufxGmQuk1=A@mail.gmail.com> <CAEJt7haPtdqbH8RPAYZaMY43F0doN7xtr%2Bz94xv-89rz9%2BzcXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 16/07/2015 18:11, Henry Hu wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Vsevolod Stakhov > <vsevolod@highsecure.ru <mailto:vsevolod@highsecure.ru>> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru > <mailto:citrin@citrin.ru>> wrote: > > > > Port maintainers and port commiters, when PORTNAME/PKGNAMEPREFIX/PKGNAMESUFFIX is changed, please note this change in commit log and for important ports also in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Any rename affect at leas some of FreeBSD users and > > > > Depends in our local ports was broken and I spent some time to figure out why. > > It turns out, that PORTNAME for graphics/gd was changed in r324437. > > No singe word about this rename was added to commit message or UPDATING... > > From the perspective of pkg things are even worse, as pkg can no > longer detect that the renamed package is a replacement for some > existing one. It breaks many stuff and solver could hardly help to > resolve this in a pain-less matter. We need something like 'Replace' > or 'Obsolete' field badly. 'UPDATING' does NOT help to solve this task > at all. > > > We already have the 'MOVED' file. Does it help? It doesn't because: 1) it is human readable and not very convenient for parsing; 2) we must keep this information on per-package basis and not globally; 3) many items are missing in MOVED (and I've recently missed one when changing a port, for example) 4) MOVED contains too many unnecessary information that is useful merely because we are using archaic version control system (namely, subversion) So the answer is no: we need a special field in manifests to make renaming transparent for pkg and, in turn, for users. -- Vsevolod Stakhov
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