pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available?

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Tue Sep 23 09:58:21 UTC 2014


On 23.09.2014 16:09, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

>> Just a thought here - why (like .rpm and .deb - and the reason I hate
>> them so much) are you making the package manager version a dependency of
>> a package?  I can understand if there are new features that you may need
>> to use a later version to get those features, but making a package
>> dependent on the package manager rather than displaying a warning that a
>> feature is missing is the brain dead way that plagues upgrades for
>> redhat and debian.  Of course if your intent is to make FreeBSD into
>> another Linux distro just with a different kernel, continue.
>>
> 
> There are new feature, that is why, the required version will be only bumped
> when there will be new features used by the ports tree, not on every pkg bump

Please, please do document what new features resulted in MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION bump.
And please, delay bumping of MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION until packages of pkg itself
are available from the repo.

Eugene Grosbein



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