Enforcing "DIST_SUBDIR/DISTFILE" uniqueness

NAKATA Maho chat95 at mac.com
Mon Aug 21 05:48:28 UTC 2006


In Message-ID: <44E941BB.7030408 at FreeBSD.org> 
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> NAKATA Maho wrote:
> > In Message-ID: <44E81C12.9050306 at FreeBSD.org> 
> > Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I recently added logic to portmaster to handle this kind of situation
> >> transparently for the user. A more general solution to this part of the
> >> problem could be had by improving the logic in the 'make checksum' target.
> >> OTOH, your solution would break the logic that portmaster (and I believe
> >> portupgrade also) uses to detect and delete stale distfiles.
> > 
> > It seems that I should not say something about such kind of issue.
> 
> Why not? You certainly won't offend me. :)

I thought that such kind of political issue must be handeled by portmgr,
and IMHO original idea, retaining DISTFILE uniqueness is a good one.
and I'm not violating the rule of FreeBSD ports system, since I
sufficiently explained at commit log.
But I don't want to implement this :)

thanks,
-- NAKATA, Maho (maho at FreeBSD.org)



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