Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:23:44 -0500 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Ports <FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ports-mgmt/portmaster distfile expression matching Message-ID: <20100116032344.GA9210@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001152118250.74752@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001152118250.74752@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny>
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:32:32PM -0500, jhell wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > Recently in upgrading x11-wm/xmonad and x11-wm/xmonad-contrib I had > noticed that when portmaster asks to delete a distfile, when it asks about > xmonad-0.9.1 it was also asking to delete the xmonad-contrib-0.9.1 before > it had even upgraded xmonad-contrib. Is this a problem on portmasters > behalf or is this on ports structure side ?. > > What do you or anyone else think about each port possibly keeping > obsolete-distfiles list one much like distinfo but a concatenated list of > previous distinfo's that had once been used allowing a ( make distclean ) > or something routine to be built into the ports infrastructure to parse > that file in each port ? Bad idea. That list will get quite large for some ports. I believe there is a PR about embedding the distinfo information into +CONTENTS. -- WXS
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