From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Dec 10 15: 1:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8170E37B405; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBAN1qk33113; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:01:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:01:52 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: "David O'Brien" , Maxim Sobolev , Subject: Re: bison port In-Reply-To: <20011210225228.GA1250@leviathan.inethouston.net> Message-ID: <20011210180042.G17865-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > 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? It looks that way from the handbook: "...the new version number (e.g. 1.0,1 in the above example) is still numerically less than the previous version (20000801), but the ,1 suffix is treated specially by automated tools and found to be greater than the implied suffix ",0" on the earlier package." Joe > > -- > David W. Chapman Jr. > dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. > dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message