From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 30 17:20:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2B837B88B; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-024.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.24]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18980; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA59740; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:20:31 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <20000330172031.A59713@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200003300345.TAA12994@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:38:22PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:38:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ultimately we should have a PORTVERSION as well, which gets incremented > whenever someone makes a change to a port, e.g. fixing a bug with a patch, > enabling a new feature, etc. It would be reset to 1 whenever the distfile > version is increased. Ports could then depend on a specific FreeBSD > version of a port (e.g. we fix a bug in libfoo which was breaking the > mumble port), etc. This sounds like a LOT of EXTRA useless work -- much like updating the useless "Version requrired" comment. Can you show this a little more in a proof of concept? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message