[CFT] UNIQUENAME patches

[Matthew Seaman]

On 16/06/2012 15:53, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> What could be added is a UNIQUENAMESUFFIX to be able to have a finer grain name.

That's certainly possible, but I was thinking about your plans to create
sub-packages.  As I understand it, you'll be building and installing
each port into a staging area, and then creating a number of different
packages from what's in the staging area.

So for a port foo, you might create:

    foo-0.99          --- the foo application and libfoo.so.0 shared
                          library
    foo-docs-0.99     --- documentation
    foo-examples-0.99 --- example configurations etc.
    foo-devlibs-0.99  --- *.h headers, libfoo.a static lib, profiling
                          libs and other things useful for developers.

and so forth.  So these are distinct packages all from one port with its
own UNIQUENAME and hence all using that port's OPTIONS settings, and all
built in one block.

Having UNIQUENAMESUFFIX for docs, examples, devlibs etc. would imply all
of those are entirely separate ports, like the way bacula and
bacula-docs are handled at the moment.

I can see there will need to be some sort of SUBPACKAGESUFFIXES variable
and associated gubbins in the ports makefiles, to do that,
plus something like tagging the entries in pkg-plist to identify which
sub-package they should belong to.

Trying to mix that with UNIQUENAMESUFFIXes would get pretty complicated.
Not to mention the question of foo-devel -- is that the devel
sub-package of the foo port, or a separate foo-devel port?[*]

	Cheers,

	Matthew

[*] Hmmm... maybe sub-packages suffixes should use a different
separator:  foo-0.99, foo--docs-0.99, foo--examples-0.99
foo--devlibs-0.99 (?)

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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