From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 03:27:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7721065672 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:27:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E798FC16 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:27:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so4358432qyk.3 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:27:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:openpgp :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BhJrl62WJam+0ggl7nK+QJwRTXlBk3o1qQ1dBDVAfMk=; b=jyRWMF5yze+tZ+fFCTfWSI93fS+bMqphqEfvRhViWHElnjmFlTwdIeodykZC+f2d3r tRN4fnSr7QJQQI8Dx+O8hUdx0yh+2Qj3GJxtSSTJhVR7EGnA6elb7314iMHSmxA2JjOn zSweKaAwQMOvxne8oUjJyH7IBo/csyEThJ/Dg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fTjTj5vOAS0ccP4+/s/0qi9Vsp6GcIxOsW4P1LyLgu+B5J/UnqBUpwkPUJW1HQghLe dlX+1/jv6dtO18zy/SHN8/+BBp53d6trhK+MbNvSgne/98wG5g1YhQuHYyj6HOBxObGn eTCbnqrU5saHG1oIkhmm8ujZ5z5ZPuZxyS3q0= Received: by 10.224.67.18 with SMTP id p18mr3867071qai.182.1245727620688; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aargh.lan (ool-182fcc8b.dyn.optonline.net [24.47.204.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm514849qwg.45.2009.06.22.20.26.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A404BF1.8060501@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:28:49 -0400 From: Eitan Adler User-Agent: Mozilla (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; ) Gecko Thunderbird Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=E9C2CCD1; url=pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: port naming question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:27:02 -0000 One of the ports I maintain (allegro) has three branches 4.2.* == main branch 4.3.* == development branch 4.9.* == the future 5.0 1) I want to make a 4.9 port - but the version number isn't yet 5.0. Is it appropriate to call the port allegro5 and just use the 4.9 version number for now? 2) How do I tell portscout to ignore 4.9.* in the allegro-devel branch? -- Eitan Adler "Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave." -Jakob Nielsen