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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:00:41 -0800
From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net>
To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:45:15PM -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> I haven't gotten much response.  Are people really okay with this?  It
> is a pretty large change, it will touch almost every single Makefile
> in the tree and will change the way the Makefiles look forever.

Yes, I'm okay with this.

<snip>

> 
> I'm also thinking of changing the pkg_* tools to put package info into
> /var/db/pkg/${PORTNAME}/ver-${VERSION} (instead of the current
> /var/db/pkg/${PORTNAME}-${VERSION}) so we can have real upgrade
> support, but that's still in the future.

Excellent..

-Chris
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cpiazza@jaxon.net   cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
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