Re: Asterisk package naming

[D'Arcy Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 2018-07-17 11:37 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:26:31AM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
>> OK, so what about the other part of my proposal?  If I install the
>> asterisk13 package it installs asterisk13-13.yy, not asterisk-13.yy.
>> There is prior art for that, e.g. python37-3.7.0, postgresql95-9.5.13,
>> php56-mysqli-5.6.36, etc.
> 
> I don't like it. I don't see the point, really. comms/asterisk should be
> removed in the nearer future, so only the versioned directories remain.
> I don't see how renaming the packages helps in any way.

I want to install asterisk13.  My scripts look at what is currently
installed with this.

  pkg_info | sed "s/ .*//;s/-[^-]*$//"

That does not find asterisk13 so I try to install it.  It installs
asterisk-13.19.0nb4.  I run my script again and it still says that
asterisk13 is not installed so I try to install it again.  It never sees
asterisk13 installed.

I suppose I can special case it but it seems like a workaraound for a wart.

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