Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:33:10 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My position on commiters guide 10.4.4 Message-ID: <20020522053309.GA93907@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020522052240.D170EBB29@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20020522041150.GA92851@nagual.pp.ru> <20020522044853.92549BB29@i8k.babbleon.org> <20020522050301.GA93570@nagual.pp.ru> <20020522052240.D170EBB29@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:22:40 -0400, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > Have you considered requesting the the person whose application you port > update the version numbers (at least patch levels) when upgrading their code? > It's just terribly confusing to have multiple different "versions" of the > same package with the same version number. I even try to do it several times. And found that some developers simple refuse to update version numbers sometimes. I not want to be involved in such type discussions with them anymore, especially forced by rule. It have nothing related to code functionality. > For one thing, without all the diffs listed in the doc, how can you even > *tell* which version you have? Normally if you want to to see whether you > have the "latest" version you just look at the version number. In FreeBSD ports system there is PORTREVISION varible exact for this purpose, to add local updater to existent version number. I use it in all such cases. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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