Subject: Re: Package naming and major versions [was Re: CVS commit:
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/03/2004 04:58:38
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 03:37:02 +0000
"Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>> I think we should fix up pkgsrc to allow subdirectories of arbitrary
> depth containing packages within each category. Then you could do
> something like:
>
> devel
> |-- GConf
> | |-- GConf-1.x
> | `-- GConf-2.x
> |-- automake
> | |-- automake-1.4.x
> | |-- automake-1.7.x
> | `-- automake-1.9.x
Nice. I assume that the mid-level Makefile would only build the latest
version so that we don't have to change our scripts and/or meta packages
when new versions are added. I suppose some targets (e.g. clean) could
be made to work with all sub-packages.
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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
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