mail/policyd name conflict

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Tue Mar 22 01:19:55 PST 2005


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:10:03 +0100
Kirill Ponomarew <krion at voodoo.oberon.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:03:03AM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:49:11 +0100
> > Anton Berezin <tobez at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We have a PR (ports/79070) for a new port named mail/policyd, which does
> > > the following:
> > > 
> > > > Policyd is an anti-spam plugin for Postfix (written in C) that does
> > > > greylisting, sender (envelope or SASL) based throttling (on messages
> > > > and/or volume per defined time unit) and Spamtrap monitoring /
> > > > blacklisting.
> > > > 
> > > > Author:	cami at mweb.co.za
> > > > WWW:	http://policyd.sourceforge.net/
> > > 
> > > clsung brought to my attention that we in fact already have a
> > > mail/policyd port.  I would imagine that typically in this situation
> > > this would mean tough luck for the newer submission.  In this instance,
> > > however, it looks like the "policyd" name really suits the new port
> > > better than the existing one, which is:
> > > 
> > > 	This is a C port of Meng Wong's policyd for Postfix. The original
> > > 	code is available from http://spf.pobox.com/postfix-policyd.txt.
> > > 	It implements SPF for postfix, as a policy daemon.
> > > 
> > > 	WWW: http://www.libspf2.org/
> > > 
> > > So, while both ports use postfix'es policy mechanism, the new port is
> > > much broader in scope.
> > > 
> > > So I'd like to suggest to rename the existing mail/policyd to
> > > mail/policyd-spf, for example.
> > 
> > So a repo for his one.
> > 
> > >  It might be a good idea to rename the new port to mail/policyd-somethingelse
> > > anyway, if we can come up with a sufficiently descriptive (and short!)
> > > "somethingelse" part.
> > 
> > Supposing is w/o "something" part, what will this do to portversion (is
> > it going to go backwards ?) and how will we protect users from self
> > shooting by portupgrading from the old one to the new one w/o noticing ?
> 
> ports/MOVED

So this actually works if you still have a port with the same name ?


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