Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:10:27 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.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: <20001003161027.B67542@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <39D9D006.652DC258@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:24:38PM %2B0300 References: <86k8by6eis.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20000927002401.A73341@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9D006.652DC258@FreeBSD.org>
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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. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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