Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:53:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Projects with multiple versions in our ports tree Message-ID: <20040814235143.P15571@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <7my8khdnch.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> References: <20040811172245.I54010@ync.qbhto.arg> <7mbrhffqyn.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp><7my8khdnch.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp>
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> Ade wrote:
>> One thing that slightly bugs me are ports that effectively include the
>> version number twice, for example:
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/dns/bind9 && make -V PKGNAME
>> bind9-9.2.3
>>
>> To my mind, that should really read bind-9.2.3, with appropriate
>> LATEST_LINK magic.
>
> Agreed.
The problem here was that I had users who wanted to be able to do
'pkg_add -r bind9' and have something useful happen. :) This is another
reason why I wanted to have "fooNN" be the real ports, and "foo" be a
slave port, or what have you.
Doug
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