Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/python

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:06:52PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> This looks useful, especially if pkg_rolling-replace gets taught
> to pass the correct value to "make replace".  But why PKGNAME_OLD
> instead of using the OLDNAME variable which is already used by
> mk/flavor/pkg/replace.mk)?

OLDNAME has different meanings in the current code. It is not
necessarily the first match for the base name pattern. The name is
derived from being similiar to PKGNAME_REQD.

> Here, I suppose the pattern from before the first ':' in the DEPENDS
> line could be used in roughly the same way as your patch uses
> PKGNAME_OLD, but being careful to handle wildcards and alternates.

There never was a good reason to allow implicit depending on multiple
versions, so I'm not sure if this applies. The logic is stupid, but
covers the needs we had so far.

Joerg