From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 31 4:11: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C2737B748; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12b0G4-000HHF-00; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:10:36 +0200 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:10:36 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: David O'Brien Cc: Kris Kennaway , Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <20000331141036.A66257@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200003300345.TAA12994@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000330172031.A59713@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000330172031.A59713@dragon.nuxi.com> Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-03-30 (17:20), David O'Brien wrote: > 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? If we upgrade the dependencies of a port, that port version doesn't change. That change should be reflected somehow. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message