Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:35:36 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: versioning system (Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ElectricFence ...) Message-ID: <200003220935.KAA09544@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Mar 2000 14:42:47 PST." <vqck8iwueqg.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami writes:
>I've also thought about adding a mandatory VERSION variable separate
>from DISTNAME/PKGNAME, to have something like
>
>PORTNAME= foo
>VERSION= 1.2
>
>These two variables will be mandatory, and DISTNAME and PKGNAME will
>be defined in bsd.port.mk as ${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}. (The PKGNAME
>will not be overridable; it will be an error for a port to define it.)
>
>At least this will help ensure that the ${PKGNAME} will have correct
>formats (well, you can always put a "-" in VERSION, but that's far
>easier to find than going through a list of packages/All or
>packages/Latest).
>===
>
>If nobody has any objections, I will go sweep through the tree and
>make these changes.
>
Wait a minute. What about ports like editors/xemacs21 which are used
as the front-end to other ports ? The Makefile defines PKGNAME as
${LANGPREFIX}xemacs${PKGNAMEEXT}-21.1.9 there. Not being able to
override PKGNAME will break this (and probably other) port(s).
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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org
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