Renaming a port

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 2, 2006, at 5:25 PM, cssdev at mac.com wrote:
>> I would vote to just svn mv it and check in an updated portfile,  
>> but I could see where an argument could be made to make it easier  
>> for users who only do 'port upgrade' to know what is going on.
>
> What about adding a ui_error message indicating that the old port  
> has been renamed?

That was what I was thinking of for the case where we left the  
existing port there for a while.

The port's description should probably be changed to indicate that  
it's old, been replaced by the newer port, and will be going away in  
the future too.

> Users would need to deactivate the old port before attempting to  
> build or install the new one. Could that be somehow automated as a  
> part of port upgrade?

The current upgrade code doesn't have any hooks that would enable  
that sort of behavior.
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