"make index" shows missing port directory

Palle Girgensohn girgen at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 8 18:09:18 UTC 2012


Chris Rees skrev:
> On 8 June 2012 08:15, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch at dssgmbh.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
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>> Adding this missing entry to the portstree should solve this issue.
>> To avoid such problems in the future, it would IMHO be preferable to
>> have only one port (/usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-mysql), which is able
>> to handle all mysql versions, similar to p5-DBD-Pg.
> 
> Actually, I'm looking at moving p5-DBD-Pg to versioned ports, since it
> is less unpredictable to install a versioned port, the autodetection
> logic is messy and packages are not built for any but the default
> version.
> 
> Chris

That is partly true, but it is also strange to have a versioned port
where there is no difference other than the dependency?


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