Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 22:00:27 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Gerald Pfeifer" <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to handle RCs in terms of PORTVERSION and friends? Message-ID: <op.ubm1a1ka9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0805230054030.6827@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> References: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0805230054030.6827@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:03:45 -0500, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> = = wrote: > Right now I find myself in the situation that Wine went into RC mode > and the current snapshots are of the form 1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2 etc. Per > the Porters Handbook this means I have prepared an update with > > PORTVERSION=3D 1.0r1 Try DISTVERSION yet? Cheers, Mezz > This works just fine and is higher than the previous releases of the > form 0.9.61. > > However, what is going to happen with version 1.0 a bit later? > > % pkg_version -t 0.9.61 1.0r1 > < > % pkg_version -t 1.0r1 1.0 > > > > How can I best address this? I'm sure I am not the first ports > maintainer running into an issue like this, and bumping EPOCH does > not look like the desirable solution here. > > Gerald @FreeBSD.org -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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