tech-pkg: Re: difficulty from renaming packages, and how to deal

Subject: Re: difficulty from renaming packages, and how to deal
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/07/2007 20:52:39

> How do people feel about the following change?  The idea is to
> enable programs (and humans) dealing with upgrades to know what to
> do about a "Removed" package.
Is it possible to place this kind of information to the inside of
binary package? How about obtaining all this info like this.

   ~# pkg_info -Q OVERRIDES /path/to/python-9.9.9.tgz
   lang/python24 lang/python23 lang/python22 lang/python20
   ~#

IMHO CHANGES file is not a best place to store renamings in it.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.