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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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