Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:58:20 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports with version numbers going backwards: print/pdflib, print/pdflib-perl Message-ID: <4533D64C.50907@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061016100247.GI71000@droso.net> References: <200610151346.k9FDkfmP012472@builder.freebsd.org> <45324105.3030002@FreeBSD.org> <20061016092752.GZ71000@droso.net> <4533555E.3020001@FreeBSD.org> <20061016100247.GI71000@droso.net>
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Erwin Lansing wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:48:14AM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote:
>> Erwin Lansing ha scritto:
>>> $ pkg_version -t 7.0.0p1 7.0.0_1
>>>
>>> It's not.
>> I know that 7.0.0p1 is major than 7.0.0_1. What I'm asking is if it
>> really matters, since nobody could download the 7.0.0p1, so they sticked
>> with plain 7.0.0. If it's an issue for automated scripts I will fix it.
>>
> Automated scripts have no knowledge that this might be an exception
> because the previous version wasn't installed anywhere. This is an
> assumption they have to make, so yes, please fix it.
If the previous version that a user could actually install was lower
than the current version, I don't see any reason to jump through hoops
here.
Doug
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