Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:32:09 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards? Message-ID: <200611150132.15074.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200611150025.kAF0PMdv080454@chilled.skew.org> References: <200611150025.kAF0PMdv080454@chilled.skew.org>
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--nextPart1269889.iKWCWyULDQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 15 November 2006 01:25, Mike Brown wrote: > How should I handle this? > > The software vendor version numbers go like this: > 1.0b3 (older release) > 1.0 (current release) > 1.0.1 (upcoming release) > > The port currently has PORTVERSION =3D 1.0.b3, and has not made use of > DISTVERSION. > > What's a good way to set PORTVERSION (and DISTVERSION, if needed) when > I update the port to the current and upcoming releases? I don't want > the PORTVERSION to go backwards. I assume that's what would happen if I > set it to just match the vendor's version numbers, and I assume that's > bad. See:=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-= naming.html#AEN521 =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1269889.iKWCWyULDQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFWmAPXyyEoT62BG0RAlBAAJ9xW/49kRpI5H0Aj4NQVbWr3BdvZwCeIFST 2vPHS1sJdp81t/O/lciw19k= =Xa86 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1269889.iKWCWyULDQ--
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