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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:55:51 +0200
From:      Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
To:        "R. Scott Evans" <freebsd-ports@rsle.net>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        timur@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tdb
Message-ID:  <54B92677.4020407@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54B9248B.9080104@rsle.net>
References:  <54B92146.3060901@rsle.net> <09128b642757896623c9f03b0be63d6f@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <54B9248B.9080104@rsle.net>

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On 2015-01-16 16:47, R. Scott Evans wrote:
> On 01/16/15 09:39, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> On 2015-01-16 08:33, R. Scott Evans wrote:
>>> Admittedly I've only got a math minor, but isn't 1.3.4 > 1.2.13?   ;-)
>>>
>>> # pkg version -IvL=
>>> tdb-1.2.13,1                       >   succeeds index (index has 1.3.4)
>>>
>>> -scott
>> the ,1 is the PORTEPOCH which apparently was changed because of a
>> version number regression.
> 
> Well, I mention it because while I use "pkg version -IvL=", I know the 
> FreeBSD Handbook section on updating ports instructs one to use 'pkg 
> version -l "<"' which will cause this ports change to go unseen. 
> Likewise, "portmaster -a" on my box didn't catch this and I had to 
> specifically update/downgrade the port.

Folks, the relevant diff here is [1]; it reverted PORTEPOCH
from 1 to 0. And you're right, it's a bug, since PORTEPOCH
should never ever decrease.

[1] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/databases/tdb/Makefile?r1=377150&r2=377149



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