Re: ${PYPKGPREFIX}- for package names (and wip/py-buildbot)

[Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On 15/07/2009 12:34 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> The issues being discussed is that there are some packages that install
> files in a python-version-specific directory, but don't have a pyXY-
> prefix, and most people think that's a bug.

I see. I guess in some instances for identification purposes that could 
be an issue.

> Your issue is one I've encountered and is a bug/not-yet-implemented
> feature in pkg_chk, make replace or pkg_rolling-replace.  As an example,
> there is a package py25-foo installed, with the default python version
> set to 26.  pkg_chk reports that this package is out of date, perhaps
> because 25/26 or perhaps because it's been updated (on the package
> version side).  Then pkg_rolling-replace calls 'make replace', and it
> finds PKGPATH from the installed package, and builds py26-foo, and when
> it tries to deinstall py26-foo fails because it wasn't ever there.

Yeah, that's the one. Indiscriminate removal and updating to the latest 
version installed + failure.

> I think the fix is (some of this may be ok already):
>
>    make pkg_chk understand pyNN-foo-X.Y, in that such packages are out of
>    date only if foo is at other than X.Y, even if NN
>    != PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT.
>
>    make the way make replace checks for old versions also respect this
>
>    that might be it, but pkg_rolling-replace might need some fixes too.
>    Perhaps an option to add packages pyPVD-foo if that doesn't exist and
>    there is a pyOV-foo.  Or perhaps only if one is changing the default
>    version of python.  Presently changing the default version is messy.

I wish there wasn't a 'default version' and more of an 'installed 
versions' option. Having just a 'default version' seems to assume to 
much. Despite having to specify a default version, I've never considered 
any python version to be my default and it always feels like a bit of a 
juggling act.

Thanks for the clarification btw, sorry for going ot.

Sarton