processing the MOVE file

[Zane C. B.]

When it comes to processing the MOVE file, how does one check if the
a move is relevant to the currently installed package?

[Dominic Fandrey]

Post by Zane C. B.
When it comes to processing the MOVE file, how does one check if the
a move is relevant to the currently installed package?

If the origin of your package is no longer available, I'd use
the last matching MOVED entry.

[Zane C.B.]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:31:38 +0200

Post by Dominic Fandrey

Post by Zane C. B.
When it comes to processing the MOVE file, how does one check if
the a move is relevant to the currently installed package?

If the origin of your package is no longer available, I'd use
the last matching MOVED entry.

The problem with this method is I've seen it fail before on gstreamer
and a few others.

[Dominic Fandrey]

Post by Zane C.B.
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:31:38 +0200

Post by Dominic Fandrey

Post by Zane C. B.
When it comes to processing the MOVE file, how does one check if
the a move is relevant to the currently installed package?

If the origin of your package is no longer available, I'd use
the last matching MOVED entry.

The problem with this method is I've seen it fail before on gstreamer
and a few others.

If you knew the date of the ports tree the package was built
from, you could pick the first match after said date.

This is what I'd like to do for the coming version of pkg_upgrade.

There's no way to get this information, though. So I'll use the
latest entry approach as this is the one I expect to fail least
often (is that proper English?).