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Subject: Re: varying PORTVERSION with OSVERSION
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On 22 Dec 2005 at 0:32, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:15:13PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> > It came to my attention today that PORTVERSION can vary with 
> > OSVERSION.  Is this a recommended practice?  For that matter can it 
> > vary with ARCH?
> 
> Yes, both are true.  As far as I know we have no policy about this.

It'll be interesting to produce quite a bit of design and code to 
cater for just a few ports.
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/