On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:23, wxs@ wrote:
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.
That would be keen!
As for the idea I had, I was thinking more along the lines of pruning the
proposed obsolete-dists file to only have the versions for the last three
or so releases in there but ultimately would be up to the port maintainer
to judge whether something should stay or not.
If the distinfo is recorded into the +CONTENTS file, how is the removing
program going to differentiate between say 3 other versions that the user
may have choose not to remove in a previous instance. ? or for that, the
problem that I had "xmonad-0.9.1 -> xmonad-contrib-0.9.1" where it wanted
to remove anything that had a xmonad prefix.
I think a simple obsolete file would be a better way around this as you
could write into the ports system a way to parse the number of lines that
are in the current distinfo file and multiply that by 2 or 3 or what ever
a maintainer would choose by given variable in their own port and
ultimately re-write the obsolete file list.
Just my thoughts but written lists are usually more of a sure practice
rather than trying to match every pattern that J Random Developer decides
to give to their tar-balls.
Best regards,
--
jhell
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