HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:03, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 
> >>>(01.20.2004 @ 1248 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 3.9K: <<
> >>>Can we at least have
> >>>
> >>>OPTIONSNAME?=${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}
> >>>
> >>>here? It makes sense for all the localized ports, perl, ruby, python, linux
> >>>and others.
> >>
> >>That makes sense...maybe having the whole trifecta is a good idea, too:
> >>${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}${PKGNAMESUFFIX}
> >>
> >>And what about UNIQUENAME instead of OPTIONSNAME?  This way, it could be
> >>used for other purposes.
> >>
> >>>end of "Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes" from Joe Marcus Clarke <<
> > 
> > 
> > If all you're going for is a unique identifier for each port, this is
> > guaranteed unique:
> > 
> > ${.CURDIR:S@${PORTSDIR}@@:S@/@_ at g}
> > 
> > x11_gnome2, etc.
> 
> Sorry to bring it up again, LATEST_LINK is designed to do what we want, it
> has just a stupid name...
> 
> Look at
>   <http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-packages-5-latest/Latest/>
> all packages in one directory, no collisions, version independend. It even
> survives renaming / category changes.

Except not every port creates a LATEST_LINK.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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