ports need a uniq identifier, do you have any suggestion?

Vitaly Magerya vmagerya at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 12:32:33 UTC 2012


Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> Perhaps we could introduce UNIQUE_ORIGIN which is
>> ${ORIGIN}_${SUBPACKAGE} or something of the sort?
> 
> I thought about this one, but while here we should think about package move
> which keeps being the same package, in that case origin will change, and the
> uniquename will change which is no good for binary world.

Does pkgng handle MOVED during upgrades? If so, ${ORIGIN}_${SUBPACKAGE}
will work fine, if not -- then it should; relying on unique name not to
change is fragile.

For example when audio/polypaudio was renamed to audio/pulseaudio, it
would be unreasonable to keep it's unique name as "polyaudio".


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