Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:32:33 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, bmah@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Enhancement of pkg_version's version comparison routine Message-ID: <39D9EE01.7A880665@FreeBSD.org> References: <86k8by6eis.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20000927002401.A73341@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9D006.652DC258@FreeBSD.org> <20001003161027.B67542@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Tue 2000-10-03 (15:24), Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > > You rule. > > > > > > If you or anyone else is bored, hack multi-version support into > > > pkg_version like I did way-back-when: > > > > > > webalizer-1.30.4 = up-to-date > > > webalizer-2.00.12 = up-to-date > > > > The more comprehensive solution would be to add information about package origin > > (i.e. corresponding /usr/ports/foo/bar directory) into +CONTENTS, so pkg_version > > will be able to look into port's directory to check version instead of relying > > on INDEX (however the latter could be used as a fallback). This should fix at > > least two problems with pkg_version: considerable lag between actual ports and > > versions in ports/INDEX; and inability to distinguish between multi-version > > ports. I currently looking into this problem and it seems that we could utilize > > either `@option' or `@comment' PLIST variables to avoid introducing new variable > > (to retain backward compatability of packages). > > > > Any comments, ideas, suggestions? > > Take zsh and zsh-devel, or any of those devel packages - how do you tell > which one to follow when it moves from zsh-5.0 and zsh-devel-6.0 to > zsh-7.0 and zsh-devel-8.0? > > I like your idea, though. That just seemed to leap at me. Hmm, I do not see any problems, for example: Moment of time t1: - you have installed foo-5.0 and foo-6.0 from somecategory/foo and somecategory/foo-devel ports; Moment of time t2>t1: - the ports have been upgraded, so you now have foo-7.0 and foo-8.0 for foo and foo-devel ports; - pkg_version looks into foo-5.0 installed package and determines that it should check somecategory/foo to determine whether update necessary. It does so, BAH you have to upgrage to foo-7.0; - pkg_version looks into foo-6.0 installed package and determines that it should check somecategory/foo-devel to determine whether update necessary. It does so, BAH you have to upgrage to foo-8.0. Am I wrong? -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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