ports/69318: [MAINTAINER] databases/msql3: change PORTNAME, add NOPORTDOCS, DOCSDIR, DATADIR

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Mon Jul 19 23:30:26 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR ports/69318; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
To: Andrey Slusar <vasallia at ukr.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, sem at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/69318: [MAINTAINER] databases/msql3: change PORTNAME, add NOPORTDOCS, DOCSDIR, DATADIR
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:24:42 +0200

 Andrey Slusar wrote:
 
 >  Hi.
 >
 > Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:16:19 +0200, you wrote:
 >
 >>> [...]
 >>> $PORTNAME changed to msql3, [...]
 >>> -PORTNAME=        msql
 >>> +PORTNAME=        msql3
 >
 >> You shouldn't do this, the version number is no part of the portname,
 >> and the official name is mSQL. Any particular reason for the change?
 >
 >   Latest link for packages msql and msql3 is conflicted.
 
 Set LATEST_LINK then. You should do this anyway when directory name != 
 port name, changing the port name is the wrong solution.
 
 -Oliver
 



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