From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 15 9: 0:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD7837B417; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fAFH0p002811; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:00:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:00:51 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andreas Klemm Cc: marcel@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PORTVERSION=6.1 wrong in linux_base-62 ??? Message-ID: <20011115090051.B2084@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20011112060014.GA489@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011112060014.GA489@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:00:14AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:00:14AM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote: > We have 3 linux_base ports: > > linux_base with PORTVERSION=6.1 > linux_base-6.2 with PORTVERSION=6.1 > linux_base with PORTVERSION=7 Yes this is totally ridiculous. There should be 'linux_base' which is always the latest and greatest. In this case that is the Red Hat 7.x bits. 'linux_base' should also have any needed RH 6.2 bits (ie, "compat libs"); but I am not sure that list of needed bits has been determined yet. Until 'linux_base' is fully usable by all ports, there should be a 'linux_base-6.2' which can be used as a dependency. I am not sure all involved that has asked for repo copies, or updated the ports have been on this sheet of music. The proliferation of version numbers in ports has gotten *totally* ridiculous and we need to rane it back in. We've gotten to the point that in order to use our ports collection; a user has to have way too much knowledge about version numbers and what port is actually what. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message