Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:52:38 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: LATEST_LINK unique or not? Message-ID: <20040824055238.GA52583@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <412A3ED0.12730.80F02992@localhost> References: <412A1B18.4785.80649D9F@localhost> <412A3ED0.12730.80F02992@localhost>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On 24 Aug 2004 at 0:37, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: >=20 > > Dan Langille wrote: > >=20 > > > Is LATEST_LINK supposed to be unique? It's not. There's about 201 > > > ports which have duplicate values. > >=20 > > It is, expect when NO_LATEST_LINK is set (in which case no latest link= =20 > > exists). Did you filtr out these cases? Everything else is bug, Kris di= d=20 > > some survey AFAIK. >=20 > I obtained my list from the output of "make -V LATEST_LINK" and paid=20 > no attention to NO_LATEST_LINK. >=20 > Are you saying LATEST_LINK must be ignored if NO_LATEST_LINK is set? =20 > Why is this not done programatically? i.e. output an empty string. The only reason is because LATEST_LINK was originally used only within bsd.port.mk in situations where NO_LATEST_LINK is tested. Perhaps you're using it for something else now that might justify changing the behaviour. Kris --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBKtelWry0BWjoQKURAs3pAJoD/QzSOnjywfKze3fjUQtNH/zN3wCfXqmb DQNdWCokWhX4IkOkOHHsg80= =jPa4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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