svn commit: r370220 - in head/biology: . ncbi-blast

John Marino freebsd.contact at marino.st
Sun Dec 28 20:15:54 UTC 2014


On 12/28/2014 20:11, David Naylor wrote:
> If I may interject.  It appears to me that the issue is a new port is using 
> the name of an old port, thus packages of the old port may conflict with the 
> new port.  

It's a brand new port.  The name was not re-used.


> However, in this case I do not believe it to be the case:
>  - The old port (biology/blast [1]) has a PKGBASE of wu-plast
>  - The new port (biology/ncbi-blast [2]) has a PKGBASE of ncbiblast
> 
> Since pkg(8) uses the package name (defined in [3] as PKGBASE, which in turn 
> is defined at [4] as ) in determining dependencies [5] and, as seen above, 
> these differ I think it is safe to assume that these are too completely 
> different ports and will not get accidentally confused as the same port by any 
> tool, thus PORTEPOCH does not need to be invoked.  

Yes, you've interpreted the situation correctly.

John


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