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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:41:30 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
Cc:        "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available?
Message-ID:  <5421404A.7060606@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140923090937.GB20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <CAO82ECHfocf=c2=ShbdJSg7Y8sjbQNChNZexzn8XMW6zaPwp=g@mail.gmail.com> <20140923083359.GA20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54213713.7020200@sorbs.net> <20140923090937.GB20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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On 23.09.2014 16:09, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

>> Just a thought here - why (like .rpm and .deb - and the reason I hate
>> them so much) are you making the package manager version a dependency of
>> a package?  I can understand if there are new features that you may need
>> to use a later version to get those features, but making a package
>> dependent on the package manager rather than displaying a warning that a
>> feature is missing is the brain dead way that plagues upgrades for
>> redhat and debian.  Of course if your intent is to make FreeBSD into
>> another Linux distro just with a different kernel, continue.
>>
> 
> There are new feature, that is why, the required version will be only bumped
> when there will be new features used by the ports tree, not on every pkg bump

Please, please do document what new features resulted in MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION bump.
And please, delay bumping of MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION until packages of pkg itself
are available from the repo.

Eugene Grosbein




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