How do conditionalize plist on $NOPORTDOCS

[Martin Cracauer]

Wesley Shields wrote on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:36:23PM -0500: 
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:30:33PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > > >>> While we are talking, how do you guys thing I should handle this
> > > >>> problem: it's a binary port.  There are different binaries for
> > > >>> FreeBSD-6.x, 7.x, 8.x
> > > >>> http://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/downloads/release/19e/
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The 6.3 will run everywhere.  Should I just use that one? Do you want
> > > >>> me to conditionalize on FreeBSD version?
> > > >> If they bother to release different native binaries for our supported
> > > >> OS versions let encourage them to keep doing that ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > "They" == kind of me, although I didn't build these particular
> > > > binaries.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there prior art in ports about how to do this? What do I do with
> > > > oddball version numbers?
> > > 
> > > Perhaps you can conditionalize the DISTNAME based on the FreeBSD version
> > > number, as shown on this page:
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/freebsd-versions.html?
> > > 
> > > If you do that, just make sure that the distinfo file has an entry for
> > > each possible DISTNAME value, so the checksum verification will work on
> > > any FreeBSD version.
> > 
> > So what happens when a user runs FreeBSD-6, installs such a port,
> > then upgrades to FreeBSD-7.
> > 
> > Would the port for the installed package come up with the wrong plist
> > and whatnot?
> 
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're asking but if the port installs
> different files based upon the version it's being installed on it should
> use PLIST_SUB accordingly.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist.html

But you'd have the wrong one installed.  Your freebsd-7 would have the
freebsd-6 package installed and the installed files don't match.

On second thought, I don't think it matters since it's not different
from having /usr/ports/lang/cmucl/* updated to something new.  Never mind.

Martin
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