a little confuse with case-sensitive name ports and multiple ports with same name

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Fri Apr 17 10:28:32 UTC 2009


Oleg Ginzburg wrote:
> And i forget to say for one else problem with {archivers,mis}/deco:
> both of them produced one binary file in /usr/local/bin/deco.
> 
> cd /usr/ports/archivers/deco
> make install
> ...
> (i have deco archivers)
> pkg_add -r deco
> 
> (deco/NC-clone replace /usr/local/bin/deco)
> 
>  pkg_which /usr/local/bin/deco
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 718 packages found 
> (-1 +1) (...). done]
> deco-3.9_4 deco-1.6
> 
> pkg_delete -f deco-3.9\*

Can you open a PR for this problem? I think it is really bad. If two 
ports are installing same files, then there must be set CONFLICTS in 
Makefile.

The next thing is that I think there should not be the two ports with 
the same name.

Miroslav Lachman


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