On Nov 18, 2008, at 18:57, David Evans wrote:
I was trying to install ntfsprogs +crypto today and found that it
failed
configuration looking for a pkg-config file for libconfig.
We have a port libconfig but it doesn't provide pkg-config files and
definitely isn't the one that ntfsprogs is looking for (completely
different API).
The homepage for our libconfig is
http://www.rkeene.org/oss/libconfig
Found the libconfig that ntfsprogs is looking for at
http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/
So the question is how to differentiate these two packages:
1) Current libconfig port is not referenced by any other port
based on
grep of the current dports tree. Could replace this one with the
new one
but they really are different packages and someone might be using the
current one somewhere.
2) Commit the new libconfig package as libconfig-new or the like
(suggestions welcome) and make ntfsprogs depend upon it.
3) Rename the existing one (libconfig-old) and make the new one
libconfig.
4) Something else.
Ideas and suggestions are solicited and appreciated.
By the way, the newer package has both C and C++ interfaces which
may be
the story behind this ticket:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14035
(3) is problematic because there is no built-in way to rename ports.
Sure, you can "svn mv" the old port to a different directory, but
MacPorts doesn't know you did that; any users who have the old port
installed will think it's the same as the new port since they'll
share the same name.
You may want to contact the authors of both software packages. Ask if
there is any relation between the two, if one is meant to replace the
other, or what. And if not, if they have any suggestions for
disambiguating the names (this problem won't be unique to MacPorts
and should ideally be fixed upstream).
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