2010/6/27 Lev Serebryakov <[email protected]>:
> Hello, Freebsd-ports.
>
> I understand, that this change (ports/137855, bsd.port.mk:1.632) was
> made 6 months ago, but I've
> noticed it only now (twice in one day!).
>
> Am I only person, who thinks, that this change is HUGE POLA
> violation?
>
> PR says about "big tarball is downloaded and CONFLICTS are detected
> after that," but I've have two more realistic scenarios, when early
> conflict detection is VERY annoying. Thry are real-life scenarios,
> occured today for me in a row.
>
> (1) I have `subversion' port installed, and want to `makesum' in
> updated subversion-freebsd port directory (because I'm maintainer and
> need to update port with new version, which have new tarball). OOPS.
> I cannot even download new tarball -- confilct is detected.
>
> (2) I want upgrade perl from 5.8.x to 5.10.x. Type command:
>
> #portupgrade -rfo lang/petl5.10 perl-5.8.9_3
>
> Ooops, confilct is detected, upgraid failed. GRRRR!
>
>
> Maybe, early conflict detection should only print WARNING, and only
> install target should be blocked by it, as everybody used for MANY
> years?
I'm in a similar boat as you when I was trying to eval some of the
linux base / dist ports recently.
I would think that the CONFLICTS detection should only be a
warning in the first run-through, and become a hard error when you try
and run make install.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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