Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:43:09 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Patrick Li" <pat@FreeBSD.org>, <dwcjr@FreeBSD.org>, <kris@obsecurity.org>, <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Committing ports with bad PORTVERSION strings (Re: cvs commit: ports/korean/pycodec Makefile distinfo) Message-ID: <013501c1c59a$f6b7ca40$d800a8c0@dwcjr> References: <200203070304.g2734p815506@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020306192750.A13315@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020307041246.GA53472@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020306203751.B78762@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:12:46PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > Excuse my ignorance for the moment, but what should be usedinstead of 2.0b2 > > or 3.0a15(samba) or 3.0.1.r6(isc-dhcp3)? > > For korean/pycodec I should've used 2.0.b2 because > 2.0 > 2.0.b2 and 2.0b2 > 2.0 I'm confused, how can they both be greater than each other or is this a typo? > > For net/samba-devel, once 3.0 final comes out and PORTVERSION need > to change to 3.0, problems will arise and you would have to bump > PORTEPOCH since 3.0a15 > 3.0 > > Compare 2 version strings: > $ pkg_version -t 2.0b2 2.0 > > > > $ pkg_version -t 3.0 3.0a15 fortunately this will never happen with samba-devel because its always a development branch, when its 3.0 time that goes into samba, but what is a ports person to do about this problem(I understand that 2.0b2 is greater than 2.0, but how would you specify its a beta? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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