cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk
MITA Yoshio
mita at ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon May 26 22:51:11 PDT 2003
>The patches committed to pkg_tools fix this.
However, it loses backward compatibility for those who use all
older versions of FreeBSD. I feel the infulence is very severe
because majority of FreeBSD users do not necessarily know how to
solve this problem with their actual version of FreeBSD.
And I myself feel that one can (and tends to) expect a backward
compatibility for slight minor version change such as 5.0-RELEASE
and 5.1-RELEASE. A RELEASE version becoming incompatible with
current ports before the next RELEASE, that is a bit too much for
me.
Instead, could you please investigate a very, very simple
alternative that I proposed? It's just using the
/var/db/${PKGNAME}/+COMMENT file, which is ALWAYS correct.
Backward compatibility is assured in that case, and until now no I
find no negative effect.
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MITA Yoshio
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