How to recover from wrong port naming at time of 1st commit?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Dec 11 00:57:39 PST 2014


On 2014-12-11 19:48 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2014-12-11 19:03 , Marko wrote:
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> On 11 Dec 2014, at 08:56 , Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>>> It's perfectly safe, it just doesn't give users who installed it under
>>> the old name an automated update path. (I assume you would edit the
>>> portfile to change the name between the move and the commit.)
>>
>> the Portfile contains the required name already, which lead to failure at the buildbots!
> 
> Oh I see. Then nobody would have been able to install it.

To clarify: nobody would have been able to install if they ran "port
install baloo-kcm-advanced" like the buildslave does. It would work if
they used the correct name.

- Josh


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