varying PORTVERSION with OSVERSION
Thierry Thomas
thierry at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 21 13:53:45 PST 2005
Le Mer 21 déc 05 à 22:15:13 +0100, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org>
écrivait :
> It came to my attention today that PORTVERSION can vary with
> OSVERSION. Is this a recommended practice? For that matter can it
> vary with ARCH?
I don't know if there exists a policy about that, but this is possible
for binaries ports (e.g. misc/dnetc or x11/nvidia-driver).
> I ask mainly because FreshPorts does not cater for this at present.
> Given that I'm now working on making FreshPorts both OSVERSION and
> ARCH independent, I wanted to gather more information before
> proceeding with the design. I was preparing to make FreshPorts aware
> that FORBIDDEN and BROKEN may vary with OSVERSION and ARCH, and
> nothing else.
It would be great if the statistics of Broken / Forbidden / etc. were
displayed by branches, thanks!
--
Th. Thomas.
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