[31791] trunk/dports/devel

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I haven't looked at your changes and I don't know if the deadlock  
> Markus describes will occur. But I have suggested a couple times  
> that we should have a portfile keyword like "superseded_by" which  
> can be used to indicate that a given port name is obsolete. Behavior  
> of this keyword would be that anyone who has the port installed and  
> uses port upgrade sees this port as needing to be upgraded. Anyone  
> who attempts to upgrade this port gets a message that they need to  
> uninstall this port and install this other port.

You can achieve this now with a pre-fetch ui_msg (and bumping the  
revision of the port that you want to remove).

> Once those steps are implemented and released, we could look into  
> more elegant solutions including MacPorts automatically uninstalling  
> the old port and installing the new one with the same variants or  
> something, but I don't think that's essential.


That might be an interesting project for someone, but given that this  
doesn't happen that often, I don't think any of the people who  
normally develop stuff for base are working on it.

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