From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 28 14:25:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AA337B423; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CA6651C5C; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:25:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:25:51 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Kris Kennaway Cc: David O'Brien , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Guidelines for new port version variables Message-ID: <20000928172551.G38472@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000928120548.A89733@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:19:51PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:19:51PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > The "_0" is implicit..I didnt think the extra spam on the majority of > packages is needed - besides, it would not be backwards compatible unless > your version parser understands the previous version anyway, at which > point you've not made anything simpler by adding _0 explicitly. > Well, the important thing IMO is registering changes within the port. The > implicit "_0" means "the state of the port when this version was first > imported". For example, when a new version is imported it still contains > all or most of the previous patches (usually) - say for example the > previous version was patched up to _2, and a new version is imported - it > wouldn't be useful to start the next version off at _3, even though it's a > heavily patched copy of the new vendor release. 100% agreement on both points. This is how I understood the system to work. We won't have FreeBSD 4.2.1 just because we had a 4.1.1, and we won't have FreeBSD 4.2.0, because the .0 is implied. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message