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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:17:46 -0800, Bill Coffman <bill.coffman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Since we're on the subject, I was wondering about other conventions
> for port versions.  Sometimes it's "_1" or "_2" and sometimes it's
> like "p5-DBD-mysql40-2.9004_1".  Is there any reason for all these, or
> are they just left to the variable discretion of the port maintainer?

I guess, you are referring to the package and not to the source
distribution file.  In this case, the _1 reflects the port's revision.
For instance, p5-DBD-mysql40 picks up these variables from
the p5-DBD-mysql port:

PORTNAME=       DBD-mysql
PORTVERSION=    2.9004
PORTREVISION=   1

HTH,

GG