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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 01:39 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, John R. Shannon wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > gdb6 The GNU Project Debugger revision 6.1
> > This is a new package.
>
> Should we keep old gdb-5.3 around?
>
> Often, when we have two versions, we put the old version with a package
> name that also has a version number. For example:
>
> devel/gdb would be your new gdb-6.1
>
> devel/gdb5 would be old gdb-5.3nb2
>
> One reason is if someone wants to keep using the latest and greatest they
> don't have to learn about your new gdb6 package, but can just update gdb.

I see your point. Running lintpkgsrc -i will miss the newer package.

> Also, can someone explain to me the pros and cons of using "cvs import"
> when importing new packages?

http://www.netbsd.org/developers/pkgsrc/

provides:

"NOTE: "cvs import" is preferred to "cvs add" because the former gets=20
everything with a single command, and provides a consistent tag."=20

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John R. Shannon
shannonjr@netbsd.org
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