Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 05:50:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/7382: Pine4 does not co-exist with older installed version of pine. Message-ID: <199807241250.FAA22255@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/7382; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ady@freebsd.ady.ro, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/7382: Pine4 does not co-exist with older installed version of pine. Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:46:23 +0300 (EEST) Hi, On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Don't be sorry, I'm lucky you are dense, or else I could miss this > * aspect... > > No problem. Almost everybody (including myself) is confused by shared > libraries. :) But noone like me... :) > > * Would somehing like the following line do the job for us (reliably) ? > > I think it's better to change the "base" name. It's ok to kludge > around in Makefiles for ports but shared libraries, once installed, > are public property. We never know what people are doing with them. > > Since pine4 is now the only "supported" version, how about just > renaming the old library to libpico3.so.1.0 or something? Ok , I'll byte: how about libpico3.so.1.0 & libpico4.so.1.0 ? After all, this shared lib thing was (our) FreeBSD invention... > > * And there is more: there are some files common to both ports (pgp* files > * and the manpages) which will be deleted with the first uninstall of one > * port leaving the other without them. I don't know how we're going to > * handle correctly this (the same situation like netscape-3 vs. > * netscape-4)... > > Don't worry about that, it's a much larger problem than pine. Some > day the ports framework will come up with a solution. I hope that day won't bee too far away, for the sake of our userbase... > > As far as both versions work fine when they are co-installed, you > should be happy. If you say so, ok !... > > Satoshi > Back to work now, I'll keep you posted with my progress Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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