Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:08:00 +0100 From: Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Coffman <bill.coffman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port versions Message-ID: <41ED88C0.1090805@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <6f9c15f8050118105132e37e02@mail.gmail.com> References: <6f9c15f8050118105132e37e02@mail.gmail.com>
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Bill Coffman wrote: > My friend, who is an expert in Linux, but not FreeBSD, told me that > the "a" meant that this is alpha code. Is this correct? Seems wrong > to me. It is wrong. In MySQL case an appended "a" means that the tarball has been repackaged to fix a small bug in release (and 4.1 serie is production quality. -- Alex Dupre
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