Hi
Sorry to say I find this extract in PORTSUPDATING a bit too terse. I wonder if
there could be some elaboration on the advice given in PORTSUPDATING for those
who do not understand the implications. IMHO it is not very helpful to have an
absense of procedural detail in such a critical file.
See illustrative questions below--
20070301:
AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/portupgrade*
AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Because of a bug in previous version, it's recomended you fill ALT_PKGDEP
QUESTION: OK what is this.. what does it do?
section in pkgtools.conf file for portupgrade be aware of alternative
dependencies you use,
QUESTION: OK what is an alternative dependency? What procedure do we follow to
find out which ones we use?
and run pkgdb -L to restore dependencies that was
lost.
Example of ALT_PKGDEP section:
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'www/apache13' => 'www/apache13-modssl',
'print/ghostscript-afpl' => 'print/ghostscript-gnu',
}
QUESTION: Example is fine.. but what is a suffix? How do we identify the ones
we need/use?
Note also, portupgrade knows nothing how to handle ports with different
suffixes (E.g. -nox11). So you should define explicitly variables
(E.g. WITHOUT_X11=yes) for the ports in /etc/make.conf or pkgtools.conf
(MAKE_ARGS section) files.
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