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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:13:57 -0800
From:      Patrick Li <pat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re:  Committing ports with bad PORTVERSION strings (Re: cvs commit: ports/korean/pycodec Makefile distinfo)
Message-ID:  <20020306221356.A95811@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <013501c1c59a$f6b7ca40$d800a8c0@dwcjr>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:09PM -0600
References:  <200203070304.g2734p815506@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020306192750.A13315@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020307041246.GA53472@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020306203751.B78762@FreeBSD.org> <013501c1c59a$f6b7ca40$d800a8c0@dwcjr>

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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:09PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> > 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?

2.0 > 2.0.b2 (notice the dot b2)

2.0 < 2.0b2 (no dot)

> 
> >
> > 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?

For specifying betas using the pycodec situation, use 2.0.b2 since 2.0
will be greater than 2.0.b2.

-pat

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