Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:25:25 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to "downgrade" a port in the tree Message-ID: <20041013202525.GR22274@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <200410131316.12430.john@jnielsen.net> References: <200410131021.30311.john@jnielsen.net> <20041013162708.GO22274@toxic.magnesium.net> <200410131316.12430.john@jnielsen.net>
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>> (10.13.2004 @ 1516 PST): John Nielsen said, in 1.1K: << > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 10:27 am, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > >> (10.13.2004 @ 1221 PST): John Nielsen said, in 1.3K: << > > > I'm not much of a programmer, but I am the port maintainer for the > > > mail/hotwayd port. The version in the tree is the latest available > > > version, hotwayd 0.8. However, there are some serious bugs in this > > > version that result in mangled e-mail headers. > > > Downgrading a port is perfectly acceptable in this situation. If you > > cannot patch the 0.80 sources to unmangle the email addresses, submit a > > PR downgrading it back to 0.74. All you need to do there is add > > PORTEPOCH= 1 > > and it will appear as a newer version to portupgrade(1). I don't > > personally think that it's even necessary to append UPDATING for this. > > Noting this situation in the commit message should be sufficient. > > Thanks for your speedy response. I've submitted a PR as you suggested > (ports/72655). > > One more question: If at some point a new version (say 0.8.1) is released, > will I need to do anything special to indicate that it is preferred over > hotwayd-0.7.4,1? Should I remove the portepoch line, leave it alone, or > bump it up? > > JN >> end of "Re: how to "downgrade" a port in the tree" from John Nielsen << Just leave the line alone. Only bump it if the PORTVERSION does downwards, and only remove it at peril of a stream of angry emails. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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