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Date:      Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:32:45 +0300
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD ports <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, knu@FreeBSD.org, linimon@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ports with version numbers going backwards: converters/ruby-iconv, databases...
Message-ID:  <43793ABD.8020702@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511142138.jAELchqp025107@8ball.rtp.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200511142138.jAELchqp025107@8ball.rtp.FreeBSD.org>

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chkversion wrote:
> - *converters/ruby-iconv* <ports@FreeBSD.org>: ruby18-iconv-1.8.2 < ruby18-iconv-1.8.3
>    | revision 1.23
>    | date: 2005/11/11 01:17:20;  author: linimon;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
>    | With portmgr hat on, reset maintainership of knu's ports since he has
>    | been inactive more than 6 months.  We hope to see him back sometime.
> 
> - *databases/ruby-gdbm* <ports@FreeBSD.org>: ruby18-gdbm-1.8.2 < ruby18-gdbm-1.8.3
>    | revision 1.18
>    | date: 2005/11/11 01:17:23;  author: linimon;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
>    | With portmgr hat on, reset maintainership of knu's ports since he has
>    | been inactive more than 6 months.  We hope to see him back sometime.
> 
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Yes, this is a problem.
PORTEPOCH does not excpected by this ports.
A brute-force approach is to bump PORTEPOCH in each of the ports.
Another way is to hack the tangled bsd.ruby.mk.

I'll think which of them is better tomorrow (today) morning.

-- 
Sem.



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