cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4 Makefile ports/emulators/linux_base-suse-9.1 Makefile ports/emulators/linux_base-suse-9.2 Makefile ports/emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3 Makefile ports/emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage1 Makefile ports/emu

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Oct 5 10:40:31 PDT 2006


On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:11:01PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:49:53 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > On 10/5/06, Boris Samorodov <bsam at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > bsam        2006-10-05 15:32:10 UTC
> > >
> > >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     emulators/linux_base-fc4 Makefile
> > >     emulators/linux_base-suse-9.1 Makefile
> > >     emulators/linux_base-suse-9.2 Makefile
> > >     emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3 Makefile
> > >     emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage1 Makefile
> > >     emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage2 Makefile
> > >     emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage3 Makefile
> > >     x11/linux-XFree86-libs Makefile
> > >   Log:
> > >   Remove deleted linux_base-* and linux_locale* ports from CONFLICTS variable
> > >   of the remaining linux ports.
> > >
> > >   Reviewed by:    netchild (agreed in principle)
> 
> > IMHO, you really shouldn't do that. People with old packages
> > installed should not worry about trying out new ports. Now you've
> > opened a way for their systems to be messed up.
> 
> Well, we are speaking about already deleted ports. Once they were
> deleted and user's ports tree updated any adding/removing should be
> done according to /usr/ports/UPDATING (i.e. reading about default
> linux_base port and how to upgrade).
> 
> Once a user uses fixed ports tree and pre-built packages there should
> be no problems.

I agree with Andrew; there should at least be a window where you keep
the CONFLICTS around to give users time to upgrade without installing
conflicting packages that mess up their system.

Kris
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