Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:41:16 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why the comma in mozilla ports version numbers? Message-ID: <20011227184116.B26126@databits.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011227173637.conrads@home.com>; from conrads@home.com on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:36:37PM -0600 References: <XFMail.20011227173637.conrads@home.com>
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++ 27/12/01 17:36 -0600 - Conrad Sabatier: | Is this simply a typo, or was it intentional? At any rate, it sure looks | weird: This is PORTEPOCH. It's used when a version goes backwards (so people know a newer version of the port is in the tree, but the version number is less than it was before). ie: entropy(~) [211] > pkg_version -t 1.0 0.9,1 < entropy(~) [212] > -pete -- Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|csh.rit.edu)] finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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