Question of port name change

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 9 01:26:35 PDT 2003


On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:20:38AM +0200, Jose R.Rey wrote:
> Salute

Howdy,
> 
> Recently one of the ports i maintain has changed the project name,
> ive been thinking if i need to make a new port and mark as deleted the 
> old one,
> or make a diff and submit as usual, what will be the best option?
> 
Submit a diff and mention clearly that the port changed it's name and
the port should be renamed via a repocopy. This will keep the cvs
history of the old port and then it's "just a normal" upgrade.

Cheers,
-erwin

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