Portupgrade confused about editors/emacs

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Fri Jan 6 03:42:42 PST 2006


Ceri Davies wrote:
> After today's portsnap run:
>
>   # portversion -v emacs
>   emacs-21.3_9                >  succeeds port (port has 19.34b_1) (=> 
> 'editors/emacs19')
>
> I thought that this may have been my fault, so I removed the package 
> and reinstalled from the editors/emacs port, but the result is the 
> same.  I assume that this is down to the ordering of these two lines 
> in /usr/ports/MOVED, but then I don't see why I haven't seen this 
> problem before:
>
>   editors/emacs|editors/emacs19|2004-03-20|emacs 19.x moved to a 
> non-default port location
>   editors/emacs21|editors/emacs|2004-03-20|emacs 21.x moved to default 
> port location

If you are using portupgrade-2.0.1 then know that its broken, and cant 
deal with moved ports well. The issue has been brought up many times, 
but it doesn't seem like anything is being done about it. A continuing 
trend for freebsd it seems.


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