svn commit: r461844 - in head: . net-mgmt net-mgmt/prometheus net-mgmt/prometheus1 net-mgmt/prometheus2 net-mgmt/prometheus2/files

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:24:48AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote:
> > 
> > You added 1 to the package name, which seems ok, though renaming
> > packages is probably a bad idea because of the wtf moment people using
> > it will have :-)
> 
> Yeah, this is part of the explanation below..
> 
> Steve and I wondered if pkg uses MOVED at all?

No, poudriere uses it though. And MOVED is about origins, pkg is about
package names, so it could nto really be interesting for it.

> > 
> > But you did not add a 2 to this one, so people who run pkg upgrade will
> > go to 1.8.2 to 2.1.0 and it'll break, as, like you said, upgrading is
> > non trivial.
> 
> We are trying to encourage people to upgrade and help new users that
> just do: `pkg install' get the newer version, instead of discovering
> later that they installed the old one.
> 
> There is a hook in the version 2 start up script and a pkg-message to
> help with this.

Mmmm, ok, but then, the directory should be named prometheus, not
prometheus2, it is always confusing when the directory name does not
match PKGBASE, one wonders which one is supposed to be the correct one,
a bit like when code and documentation do not say the same thing.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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