Ports with same name

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:24:00 +0100
Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:01:24 -0800
> Charlie Kester <corky1951 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue 09 Mar 2010 at 10:25:14 PST Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > >On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:23:51 -0500
> > >Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello-
> > >>
> > >> As documented in
> > >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/144277 we have
> > >> two ports with the same name:
> > >>
> > >> Port:	gag-2.9
> > >> Path:	/usr/ports/security/gag
> > >> Info:	A stacheldraht (DOS attack) agent detector
> > >> Maint:	ports at FreeBSD.org
> > >> B-deps:	
> > >> R-deps:	
> > >> WWW:	http://www.washington.edu/People/dad/
> > >>
> > >> Port:	gag-4.9
> > >> Path:	/usr/ports/sysutils/gag
> > >> Info:	Graphical Boot Manager
> > >> Maint:	alepulver at FreeBSD.org
> > >> B-deps:	
> > >> R-deps:	
> > >> WWW:	http://gag.sourceforge.net/
> > >>
> > >> I am looking for some advice on whats the best course of action
> > >> to deal with this.
> > >>
> > >> My gut feeling is that sysutils/gag should remain the same and
> > >> that security/gag should be renamed to security/gag-stacheldraht.
> > >>
> > >> Anyone vehemently opposed to this?
> > >>
> > >
> > >So where's the problem?  sysutils/gag doesn't seem to install a
> > >binary which would conflict with security/gag.  In fact, it
> > >doesn't seem to install an executable at all, based on examining
> > >the Makefile and pkg-plist.
> > 
> > Could be a problem for tools like portmaster that allow the user to
> > specify the port name only, rather than category/portname.  
> > 
> > If a user has both gags installed and then runs "portmaster gag",
> > how should portmaster resolve the ambiguity?
> > 
> 
> By examining the ORIGIN tags in +CONTENTS and asking the user which
> one to update?
> 
> IMO this is a putative problem which shouldn't be "fixed" by renaming
> a port.  But I'm just a lowly ports committer and not a member of
> portmgr.

We ain't Gods either, y'know ;)

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