Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:49:10 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: fcash@bigfoot.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing port versions/names (end-of-life??) Message-ID: <200210311449.g9VEnAKQ073510@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:56:40 %2B0800." <20021030005640.GA26220@terry.dragon2.net>
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In message <20021030005640.GA26220@terry.dragon2.net>, Ying-Chieh Liao
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> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:30:30 -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > I'm the maintainer of the DansGuardian ports (www/dansguardian and www/dans
> guardian-devel). Currently, these ports track the release (2.2.x) and stable
> (2.4.x) series of DansGuardian. 2.2.x has been end-of-lifed (actually a few
> months ago), and a new devel release has been made (2.5.x).
> > How does one move ports around? For instance, I'd like to drop support for
> 2.2.x, move 2.4.x to www/dansguardian and start supporting 2.5.x via www/dan
> sguardian. Is is as simple as submitting a PR with a patch to move www/dansg
> uardian from 2.2.x to 2.4.x, and another PR to move www/dansguardian-devel fr
> om 2.4.x to 2.5.x? Or is there another mechanism? Should I move the ports t
> o version-based names like www/dansguardian22 and www/dansguardian24 and keep
> www/dansguardian-devel as the development port?
>
> I suggest :
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> 1. repo-copy dansguardian-devel to dansguardian
> 2. update dansguardian to latest 2.4.x
> 3. repo-copy dansguardian to dansguardian-devel
> 4. update dansguardian-devel to latest 2.5.x
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> or dansguardian22 vs. dansguardian24 vs. dansguardian-devel is another good i
> dea
Except that the "main" version, e.g. the one we consider to be used for
prime-time applications, be called dansguardian. For example, tripwire
is 2.3.1-2, while tripwire12 and tripwire13 track older versions.
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