portmaster patch for testing CONFLICTS and dependency list (Was: Re: portmaster and dependencies)

[Doug Barton]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:51:56 -0500, Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>> I've created a patch that has the dependency list change, plus the
>> experimental work I'm doing on trying to handle alternate dependencies
>> via
>> CONFLICTS. It's at
>> http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-conflicts-depends.patch.
>> I would appreciate it if folks could at least test the dependency list
>> hunk
>> of that patch, and report back if they have any problems. As I said, it
>> _should_ work, but it's a non-trivial change and I don't want to screw
>> things up for anyone.
> 
> Awsome! I can test it in the next week or so. Right now, I am working on
> install KDE and GNOME 2.15.x together in jail for conflict stuff by
> merge into a prefix. When I am done w/ it, then I can test your patch by
> upgrade GNOME 2.14.x to 2.15.x. It is a huge upgrade, so let's see how
> portmaster can handles it. :-)

Well I did the last round of torture testing by doing basically what you're
doing now, first installing gnome from scratch, then installing kde from
scratch. So hopefully it will perform well. :)

Doug

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