Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:59:31 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version of "opencv-core-2.3.1" Message-ID: <CADLo83_xi5U9v4S4P7233_F0oEPo7djXZtmgd-D1g7Ag93=ycA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP124381DBDEC52F570FEF1CA93080@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP124381DBDEC52F570FEF1CA93080@phx.gbl>
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On 18 Sep 2011 12:36, "Carmel" <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> wrote: > > When running: "/usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL=", I received this rather > strange output: > > opencv-core-2.3.1 > succeeds index (index has 2.3.1.a) > > I would have expected output to be more like this: > > apache-2.2.20_1 < needs updating (index has 2.2.21) > > I have never seen this before. Is there something broken? I have a > suspicion that programs like "portupgrade" or "portmanager" will not > properly handle this. > > This is on a FreeBSD-8.2 amd64 system. On second thoughts, this looks like EVERSIONNUMBERGOINGBACKWARDS; alphabetical characters in versions usually indicate beta status and are numerically less than the numeric version. Perhaps a PORTEPOCH bump is in order, or some creativity with DISTVERSION. Chris
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