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Subject: Re: Committing ports with bad PORTVERSION strings (Re: cvs commit: ports/korean/pycodec Makefile distinfo)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:43:09 -0600
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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?


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