Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:39:28 -0500 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami" <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Will Andrews" <will@physics.purdue.edu>, "FreeBSD Ports" <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports Options Paper Message-ID: <019101c01a7c$86c072c0$8dfee0d1@westbend.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009081902480.86583-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqclmx270ec.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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From: "Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami" <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> > * From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> > > * Good idea :-) Unfortunately it make take a bit of work since it probably > * has other infrastructural baggage which needs to be ported. > > We'll see. :) > > * I meant that the new version of the package can't carry information about > * all possible children and which versions are compatible with it. An > * installed package knows which installed packages depend on it, but not > * whether they will work with the new version. > > I see what you mean now. Yes, that will be a problem, but I guess > upgrading all depending children (maybe given as an option) will be > good enough for most people. > > * > Does the NetBSD index contain information on necessary version ranges > * > for dependencies too? If so, yes, that should work. > * > * I'm not sure - someone should look into it. Any takers? > > Any takers? Knu-san, weren't you looking into NetBSD pkgsrc recently? :) > I had ported the NetBSD pkg CONFLICT code to FreeBSD a while back, but nothing happened with it after I submitted them (13650 - bsd.port.mk patch and 13649 - pkg_install tools patch). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=13650 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=13649 Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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