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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:07:05 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>, "Timur I. Bakeyev" <timur@FreeBSD.org>, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, marino@freebsd.org, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r361646 - in head/net/samba36: . files
Message-ID:  <20140716120705.GA14729@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
> Again, I have no objections about licenses/comments/whatever. I want
> actually merely to figure out, which manifest's fields are
> *significant*. At this point, I can easily change this list without
> insulting users. On the contrary, after 1.3 release that would be hard.

Understood; sounds certainly reasonable.

> I suggest thus to stop bikescheding and switch to constructive
> discussion and define how should we distinguish one package from
> another. And no, we *cannot* rely on port version/revision/epoch only!

One thing that comes to mind is svn info /usr/ports/foo/bar | grep Last
Changed Rev.  Then port (portupgrade) users won't get upset by countless
portrevs, and pkg will be able to rebuild (redistribute) a package even
if maintainer forgot to bump portrev (esp. for an important update).

./danfe



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