ports and PBIs

Kris Moore kris at pcbsd.org
Mon May 3 18:33:53 UTC 2010


On 05/01/2010 00:29, James Butler wrote:
> Genuine (possibly stupid) question -in PBI land, what happens if
> package B is, say, CUPS? Does one need versioned rc.d scripts to start
> one or the other? Which one gets to claim port 631?
>
> -James Butler
>    

That is a problem we are dealing with right now. We have to check to 
ensure that we don't already have a rc.d script for CUPS, and default to 
the pre-existing one if so. The only other option I see is that we 
default to the PBI one, but either way we can only have one copy running 
at a time :)

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Kris Moore
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