From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 30 4:29: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DC437B917; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:28:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca2-07.ix.netcom.com [205.186.212.7]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA07661; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 07:28:56 -0500 (EST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id EAA14932; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:28:55 -0800 (PST) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable References: From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 30 Mar 2000 04:28:54 -0800 In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:38:22 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Kris Kennaway * Ultimately we should have a PORTVERSION as well, which gets incremented * whenever someone makes a change to a port, e.g. fixing a bug with a patch, * enabling a new feature, etc. It would be reset to 1 whenever the distfile * version is increased. Ports could then depend on a specific FreeBSD * version of a port (e.g. we fix a bug in libfoo which was breaking the * mumble port), etc. Yes, that is nice. * Also a good idea, except it should probably be +VERSION for consistency No, I wrote it that way explicitly so users can install more than one version of the same "port" if they want. Ultimately we want to go to something like gnu stow (the /var/opt/pkgname/{bin,share,lib...} and the symlink tree from /usr/local) and there is no reason why we have to restrict ourselves to one version per port. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message