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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:05:45 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes
Message-ID:  <1074621945.757.63.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <400D6D8F.7010708@fillmore-labs.com>
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On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:03, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Adam Weinberger wrote:
>=20
> >>>(01.20.2004 @ 1248 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 3.9K: <<
> >>>Can we at least have
> >>>
> >>>OPTIONSNAME?=3D${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}
> >>>
> >>>here? It makes sense for all the localized ports, perl, ruby, python, =
linux
> >>>and others.
> >>
> >>That makes sense...maybe having the whole trifecta is a good idea, too:
> >>${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}${PKGNAMESUFFIX}
> >>
> >>And what about UNIQUENAME instead of OPTIONSNAME?  This way, it could b=
e
> >>used for other purposes.
> >>
> >>>end of "Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes" from Joe Marcus Clarke <<
> >=20
> >=20
> > If all you're going for is a unique identifier for each port, this is
> > guaranteed unique:
> >=20
> > ${.CURDIR:S@${PORTSDIR}@@:S@/@_@g}
> >=20
> > x11_gnome2, etc.
>=20
> Sorry to bring it up again, LATEST_LINK is designed to do what we want, i=
t
> has just a stupid name...
>=20
> Look at
>   <http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-packages-5-latest/Latest/>;
> all packages in one directory, no collisions, version independend. It eve=
n
> survives renaming / category changes.

Except not every port creates a LATEST_LINK.

Joe

--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus@FreeBSD.org
gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome


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