HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Tue Jan 20 17:45:19 PST 2004


Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:03:59PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> 
>>Look at
>> <http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-packages-5-latest/Latest/>
>>all packages in one directory, no collisions, version independent. It even
>>survives renaming / category changes.
> 
> In the past there have been ports that collide here.  There may still
> be...we don't check for it automatically.

Yes, there are collisions, but you can easily flag most of them as bugs. The
point is that avoiding collisions and version independence are the properties
we want here.


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