Portupgrade confused about editors/emacs

KOMATSU Shinichiro koma2 at lovepeers.org
Sat Jan 7 15:05:26 PST 2006


Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:43:37AM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> 
>>Ceri Davies wrote:
>>
>>>After today's portsnap run:
>>>
>>> # portversion -v emacs
>>> emacs-21.3_9                >  succeeds port (port has 19.34b_1) (=> 
>>>'editors/emacs19')
>>>
>>>I thought that this may have been my fault, so I removed the package 
>>>and reinstalled from the editors/emacs port, but the result is the 
>>>same.  I assume that this is down to the ordering of these two lines 
>>>in /usr/ports/MOVED, but then I don't see why I haven't seen this 
>>>problem before:
>>>
>>> editors/emacs|editors/emacs19|2004-03-20|emacs 19.x moved to a 
>>>non-default port location
>>> editors/emacs21|editors/emacs|2004-03-20|emacs 21.x moved to default 
>>>port location
>>
>>If you are using portupgrade-2.0.1 then know that its broken, and cant 
>>deal with moved ports well. The issue has been brought up many times, 
>>but it doesn't seem like anything is being done about it. A continuing 
>>trend for freebsd it seems.
> 
> 
> It seems that the commit on January 3rd tried to address this exact
> issue, but failed.  Thanks for the info.

Yes, I tried to fix this issue on portupgrade-2.0.1,
but later I knew it failed.
I am now trying to work out this, but until then,
when you find a port that causes problem,
please add it to IGNORE_MOVED in pkgtools.conf such as:

  IGNORE_MOVED = [
    'editors/emacs',
  ]


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