From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 20 11:30:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DC914D7C for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA04459; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:34:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199907201834.LAA04459@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: downgrading a port? In-Reply-To: <19990721112523.A1599@norn.ca.eu.org> from Chris Piazza at "Jul 21, 1999 11:25:23 am" To: cpiazza@home.net (Chris Piazza) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Piazza wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:49:17AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > What is the recommended procedure for down grading a port? > > > > I submitted an upgrade of lesstif from 0.88.1 to 0.88.9. > > Chris Piazza(sp?) asked if I would be willing to maintain > > this port, and I have agreed. However, about further > > testing it appears that 0.88.1 is more stable than 0.88.9. > > > > Is it permissible to include a comment in the Makefile > > to state that "0.88.1 appears more stable than 0.88.9, so > > an upgrade to 0.88.9 will not be done"? > > Sure, just send a PR that 'upgrades' the port to an older version > Having the comment there is a good idea so people don't keep sending > upgrades to the port. > Okay. I wasn't sure if there was some behind the scene cvs voodoo. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message