Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:07:39 -0700 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: My plan to fix the versioning for lang/gcc ports Message-ID: <E6DB38E4-C650-4DB7-9666-11D2AE6D8FDE@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.99.0905190141510.24313@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> References: <alpine.LSU.1.99.0905190141510.24313@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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On May 19, 2009, at 07:57 , Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Currently we have versions of the following
>
> PORTVERSION= 4.3.4
> PORTREVISION= 20090517
>
> in the lang/gcc ports, where 20090517 is the date of a snapshot
> of GCC 4.3.4. This has some obvious problems when one needs a
> PORTREVISION bump, so I am planning to change the versioning to
>
> PORTVERSION= 4.3.4.20090517
Rather than going that way, why not take a leaf out of "standard"
practice for DNS SOA serial numbers, and go with:
PORTVERSION= 4.3.4
PORTREVISION= ${SNAPDATE}${SNAPREVISION}
SNAPDATE= 20090517
SNAPREVISION= 00
Probably a lot less work in the long run.
-aDe
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