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Subject: Re: portscout - new distfile scanner
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:30:43PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> 
> > Someone noted that portscout found 0.811 as a update for 0.9 --
> > unfortunately, when I tried to account for weird versions like this
> > before, it didn't work out well at all. So, for now, portscout assumes
> > version numbers count up.
> 
> Which would be correct according to the porters handbook. So this is an
> error in the port, because the number should be 0.8.11 or portepoch
> needs to be increased.
> 

The version string used is from the port's DISTNAME or DISTVERSION
values; the version in ports format is not much use, unfortunately -
which means portscout has to deal with all the weird and wonderful
schemes vendors come up with.

-- 
Shaun Amott [ PGP: 0x6B387A9A ]
    Scientia Est Potentia.