Ports with same name

[Gary Jennejohn]

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.

---
Gary Jennejohn