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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:17:16PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:12:19PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote:
> > According to the Porter's Handbook, PORTEPOCH never goes away.  This
> > number can never be decremented....unless you rename the port, I guess.
> 
> I believe the assumption there is that the version number will never
> surpase some previous value.  That is not the case here.
> 
But wouldn't anyone with the PORTEPOCH version installed think they 
have a newer version than whatever version the non PORTEPOCH version 
strictly from a pkg_version -v standpoint?

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David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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