Re: pkgsrc NetBSD 6.0/x86_64 2013-06-11 00:30

Krister Walfridsson <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>
>> I think that something may be wrong here, it should select single "the most
>> appropriate" version here. If it doesn't work, "1" is appropriate temporary
>> measure.
>
> Something is sort of wrong here, but it is by design...
>
> Pkgsrc has only one version of each package -- different
> versions are differentiated by changing the package name (e.g.
> foo-1.2.3, foo2-2.1.0).
>
> But wip has a newer version of glib2 that is also called
> glib2... This makes sense for the wip package if you consider it
> to be work in progress for importing to pkgsrc as a replacement
> for that package.  It does not make sense for the bulk builder,
> as it is supposed to be able to rely on the numbering convension
> from pkgsrc...

Shouldn't it have chosen the newest version of the two then?


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