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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:19:46 +0400
From:      Oleg Ginzburg <oleg.ginzburg@nevosoft.ru>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a little confuse with case-sensitive name ports and multiple ports with same name
Message-ID:  <200904171419.47519.oleg.ginzburg@nevosoft.ru>
In-Reply-To: <49E8556F.3090505@quip.cz>
References:  <200904161900.42681.oleg.ginzburg@nevosoft.ru> <200904171047.56671.oleg.ginzburg@nevosoft.ru> <49E8556F.3090505@quip.cz>

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On Friday 17 April 2009 14:09:51 Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Oleg Ginzburg wrote:
> > And i forget to say for one else problem with {archivers,mis}/deco:
> > both of them produced one binary file in /usr/local/bin/deco.
> >
> > cd /usr/ports/archivers/deco
> > make install
> > ...
> > (i have deco archivers)
> > pkg_add -r deco
> >
> > (deco/NC-clone replace /usr/local/bin/deco)
> >
> >  pkg_which /usr/local/bin/deco
> > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 718 packages
> > found (-1 +1) (...). done]
> > deco-3.9_4 deco-1.6
> >
> > pkg_delete -f deco-3.9\*
>
> Can you open a PR for this problem? I think it is really bad. If two
> ports are installing same files, then there must be set CONFLICTS in
> Makefile.

Ok.

>
> The next thing is that I think there should not be the two ports with
> the same name.

IMHO, soon or later, problems like that will be surface is frequency . More 
so, a package numbers is increase day by day. May be location like 
/usr/local/bin/*  most certainly controlling by some stuff through 
analyzing/scanning pkg-plist files for stop potential collision?

>
> Miroslav Lachman




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