When (not) to enter a repo-copy in ports/MOVED

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Sep 2 11:26:38 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 07:01, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> According to
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#Q12.2.3.
> adding an entry to ports/MOVED should be done for all repo-copies.
> 
> I just completed a repo-copy of lang/gcc34 to lang/gcc35, where we will 
> retain both the old and new versions for quite some time.  Does this 
> really require an entry in ports/MOVED as well?

No.  You only need a MOVED entry if one port is being removed, or if
users of one port should move to using another port for the same
functionality.  Since both ports are going to coexist, you can forgo a
MOVED entry.

Joe

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