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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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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

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