Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:17:46 -0800 From: Bill Coffman <bill.coffman@gmail.com> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port versions Message-ID: <6f9c15f805011817175e3e821@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41ED88C0.1090805@FreeBSD.org> References: <6f9c15f8050118105132e37e02@mail.gmail.com> <41ED88C0.1090805@FreeBSD.org>
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Thanks for the info. Since we're on the subject, I was wondering about other conventions for port versions. Sometimes it's "_1" or "_2" and sometimes it's like "p5-DBD-mysql40-2.9004_1". Is there any reason for all these, or are they just left to the variable discretion of the port maintainer? Thanks, -Bill On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:08:00 +0100, Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> wrote: > Bill Coffman wrote: > > My friend, who is an expert in Linux, but not FreeBSD, told me that > > the "a" meant that this is alpha code. Is this correct? Seems wrong > > to me. > > It is wrong. In MySQL case an appended "a" means that the tarball has > been repackaged to fix a small bug in release (and 4.1 serie is > production quality. > > -- > Alex Dupre >
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