From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 19 13: 9:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2C137B424 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (dialup9-14.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.228.14]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA67324; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:09:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3JK8qT52957; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:08:52 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3ADF45B5.8D0F88D7@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:08:21 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Johnson Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Handling tarballs with no version References: <20010419125305.A48871@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have a port that I maintain that does not use a version number in > the tar file. If I update the port and bump either the PORTVERSION or > PORTREVISION variable, then users who have the port installed will get > a CHECKSUM mismatch when doing an upgrade. How can I force the update > of the distfile when one installs the port? I was thinking that running > the distclean target prior to fetch would work but what is the cleanest > way to implement that? Contact original author of software and ask him/her to assign some meaningful version number to the tarball in question. All other options suck badly. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message