From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 27 15:41:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 354E337B417 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:41:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26682 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Dec 2001 23:41:16 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:41:16 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why the comma in mozilla ports version numbers? Message-ID: <20011227184116.B26126@databits.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from conrads@home.com on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:36:37PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ++ 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 It's used when a version goes backwards (so people know a newer version of the port is in the tree, but the version number is less than it was before).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