Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 05:45:12 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-base-5.2 - Imported sources Message-ID: <19990709054512.B84634@mad> In-Reply-To: <3785983D.EF769633@scc.nl>; from Marcel Moolenaar on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:35:41AM %2B0200 References: <6514.931435144@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <3784953E.20F2005E@scc.nl> <19990708114649.A67400@dragon.nuxi.com> <3784FA51.639E1920@scc.nl> <19990708223740.A3633@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990708220450.C29714@mad> <3785983D.EF769633@scc.nl>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:35:41AM +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > I think there's a misunderstanding: > linux-devel has nothing to do with versioning. It's the port that adds > development tools. With versioning you would get: -devel is the standard -tag used to imply "latest, and hopefully-but-probably-not greatest" version. Sometimes -latest is used instead. afterstep ports/x11-wm/afterstep afterstep-devel ports/x11-wm/afterstep-devel gimp-devel ports/graphics/gimp-devel gimp1 ports/graphics/gimp1 glib ports/devel/glib glib11-devel ports/devel/glib11-devel gtk11 ports/x11-toolkits/gtk11 gtk11-devel ports/x11-toolkits/gtk11-devel mico ports/devel/mico mico-latest ports/devel/mico-latest zsh ports/shells/zsh zsh-devel ports/shells/zsh-devel From what you are saying, it sounds like you really want to use a -latest or -devel tag on one of the two ports, not that you want to use version numbers. > linux-base-5.2 > linux-base-6.0 > linux-devel-5.2 > linux-devel-6.0 Which is perhaps the reason that "linux_devel" was originally named "linux_devel" instead of "linux-devel". I wasn't aware that you were planning a "linux-devel". You may want to use the less-common "-latest" tag. [From another message]. > Well, that was originally the case when I included the version number in > the ports directory. I got the impression that that was not at all > welcome :-) I now have decided to drop the version numbering. Using > RH52 as the version is even worse then it now is. [...] > overwrite/upgrade old versions. I just hope I don't have to say "I told you > so" :-) Version numbers are perfectly welcome in the ports directory. Just do it properly... I've given many examples in two different messages from the existing ports system on how to do it properly. Pick one of them, and follow it, rather than threatening to say "I told you so". Please. :-) -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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