[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcus Brinkmann) wrote on 09.02.99 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> QUESTION: Can one port have a package with the same name as a package in > binary-all? What would happen if I would upload a package "makedev" with > Architecture: hurd-i386? Would it replace only the symlnk in the Hurd > port, or would it affect other ports, too? Remember that we use package names as keys - for example, in the BTS. So there *must not* ever be two packages with the same name. If we need both a Linux and a Hurd (and a BSD and ...) "makedev" package, then let's call them makedev-linux, makedev-hurd, makedev-bsd and so on ... or else, build a combined version. MfG Kai
