From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Aug 28 18:54:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from radon.gryphonsoft.com (mcut-b-078.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0109537B42C; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by radon.gryphonsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 326291AA5; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:52:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:52:53 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Will Andrews , Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: PORTREVISION and PORTEPOCH Message-ID: <20000828205253.Q73638@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000828202407.N73638@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:48:15PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:48:15PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > Um, '.' won't work because PORTEPOCH could be there without > PORTREVISION, making it indistinguishable with normal version numbers. Hehe, oops. :) > Ok. I hope you will follow through with it, this wouldn't be the > first time (or second time) someone proposed something like > this.... ;) Yeah, I know. But this time I think I hit the jackpot on how to solve a large number of ports problems. :> I need to get my thoughts together, so please don't ask me exactly what I'm thinking of doing, in any form. ;) In the meantime, please implement PORTEPOCH/PORTREVISION. I don't think the bash thing is a big deal, since we're using sh in make(1). -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G++ e>++++ h! r- y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message