[CFT] UNIQUENAME patches

[Matthew Seaman]

On 16/06/2012 15:26, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 16 June 2012 15:13, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 16/06/2012 14:18, Chris Rees wrote:
>>> That's great-- though rather than patching colliding-only ports, can't
>>> we just add the category to it?
>>>
>>> .for cat in ${CATEGORIES}
>>> UNIQUEPREFIX?= ${cat}
>>> .endfor
>>>
>>> (copying the code from PKGCATEGORY; might be better off moving the
>>> PKGCATEGORY code up higher and just using that).
>>
>> Yes.  I thought long and hard about doing that, but I opted not to for
>> two reasons:
>>
>>   1) Using the port name + a uniqueprefix where necessary produces what
>>      is close to the minimal change required to give every port a
>>      unique name.  The UNIQUENAME won't actually change for quite a
>>      lot of ports under my scheme.
>>
>>   2) As a way of future-proofing against reorganizations of the ports
>>      tree.  What tends to happen is that a new category is invented
>>      and a number of ports are moved into it.  My way should avoid
>>      changing the UNIQUENAME in the majority of cases.
>>
>> Remember that changing the UNIQUENAME changes where the record of the
>> port options are stored, and either we annoy a lot of users by making
>> them fill in a buch of dialogues all over again, or we have to invent
>> some complicated mechanism copy the old options settings to the new
>> directory.  (Yes -- this sort of thing will occur with the changes as
>> written.  It can't be avoided entirely.)
>>
>> Plus I think it would be more natural and easier for maintainers and
>> end-users to talk about (say) "phpmyadmin" rather than
>> "databases-phpmyadmin."
> 
> Very thoughtful, OK.  You'll also need some sort of cronjob then to
> yell at people who duplicate UNIQUENAME then, rather like erwin's
> LATEST_LINK script; ports/Tools/scripts/check-latest-link.

http://people.freebsd.org/~matthew/uniquename/uniquecheck

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	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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