Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:34:43 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Marcus Ahlberg <ahlbergm@student.chalmers.se> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incorrect version comparison Message-ID: <20070404193443.GA63066@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <C95CD98B-6DA5-4062-900B-D192902BC215@student.chalmers.se> References: <C95CD98B-6DA5-4062-900B-D192902BC215@student.chalmers.se>
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:10:21PM +0200, Marcus Ahlberg wrote: > My daily cronscript reported this morning that there was a new > version of ruby+pthreads: > ruby+pthreads-1.8.5.12,1 < needs updating (index has > 1.8.6,1) > > However, when I was about to upgrade it, it didn't appear in the list > of outdated ports. Instead I saw this output from portversion: > ruby+pthreads-1.8.5.12,1 > succeeds port (port has 1.8.6) > > It appears that (1.8.6,1) has been replaced by (1.8.6) during the day > and this has inaccurately taged my (1.8.5)-installation as newer than > the one in ports. What might be the cause of this? Someone mistakenly dropped the portepoch from the port? Kris
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