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On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:03:45 -0500, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> =
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wrote:

> Right now I find myself in the situation that Wine went into RC mode
> and the current snapshots are of the form 1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2 etc.  Per
> the Porters Handbook this means I have prepared an update with
>
>  PORTVERSION=3D    1.0r1

Try DISTVERSION yet?

Cheers,
Mezz

> This works just fine and is higher than the previous releases of the
> form 0.9.61.
>
> However, what is going to happen with version 1.0 a bit later?
>
>   % pkg_version -t 0.9.61  1.0r1
>   <
>   % pkg_version -t 1.0r1 1.0
>   >
>
> How can I best address this?  I'm sure I am not the first ports
> maintainer running into an issue like this, and bumping EPOCH does
> not look like the desirable solution here.
>
> Gerald @FreeBSD.org


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