On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:32:32PM -0500, jhell wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > Recently in upgrading x11-wm/xmonad and x11-wm/xmonad-contrib I had > noticed that when portmaster asks to delete a distfile, when it asks about > xmonad-0.9.1 it was also asking to delete the xmonad-contrib-0.9.1 before > it had even upgraded xmonad-contrib. Is this a problem on portmasters > behalf or is this on ports structure side ?. > > What do you or anyone else think about each port possibly keeping > obsolete-distfiles list one much like distinfo but a concatenated list of > previous distinfo's that had once been used allowing a ( make distclean ) > or something routine to be built into the ports infrastructure to parse > that file in each port ?
Bad idea. That list will get quite large for some ports. I believe there is a PR about embedding the distinfo information into +CONTENTS. -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
