bad dependance on -> linux_base while upgrade

[Alexander Leidinger]

Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at sw.ru> wrote:

Removing current@ from CC.

> ? ??, 08/09/2005 ? 18:50 +0200, Alexander Leidinger ?????:

>> There's no autodetection of the used linux_base version. We have a
>> default linux_base and everything is supposed to work with only this
>> version. Everything else is pure luck (or good "upward-compatibility"
>> of the linux ports, but this isn't required).
>
> Probably we should register same dependence as we check ?
> I mean we check existence of /compat/linux/etc/redhat-release as
> dependence,
> Then check related port:
> # pkg_which /compat/linux/etc/redhat-release
> linux_base-rh-9
> #
> And then register valid dependence.

This would result in the expectation that every linux port (or at least most
ports) are able to run with every linux_base. We can't guarantee this. So we
require to make the override explicit. This way the user has to live with the
decission he decided to make.

Bye,
Alexander.

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