ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel

[Doug Barton]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> After a long time, I've got a little free time and spent it working for
>> portupgrade.
>> A new version (2.4.0) was released.

Congrats on both the new version, and finding the time. :)

> This breaks certain ports (portupgrade -a) that have multiple ports
> that can satisfy a depends.   For example net-p2p/deulge depends on
> devel/boost but multimedia/miro depends on devel/boost-python.   The
> only difference between boost and boost-python is boost-python sets
> the -DWITH_PYTHON flag and lists lang/python
> -2.5 while boost does not depend on it and makes the user specify the
> above flag from the command line.  Under the old portugrade it relied
> on miro and/or deluge to detect its own depends and since both did it
> by xDEP on the installed files either whould be accepted.   Under the
> new one portupgrade attempts to build from index depends thus does not
> allow this interchangablity.

I handled this in portmaster by analyzing the CONFLICTS. If a requested 
dependency has a CONFLICTS line I check the glob patterns against the 
installed ports with pkg_info and keep going if we already have something 
installed that will work.

That's not a perfect solution, but it handles all the cases I've seen 
personally, or users complained about before that feature was introduced.

hope this helps,

Doug

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