From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 16 16:50:55 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F75437B423; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA52674; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:50:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Langille Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games/xlines Makefile ports/games/xlines/patches patch-aa In-Reply-To: <200009162321.LAA17226@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > On 16 Sep 2000, at 16:16, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Portrevision is used when the end product changes in such a way that > > people may want to know about the newer version and update. So if you > > modify a patch such that it functionally affects the binary, you should > > bump it - whether or not the patch is new is immaterial. > > And doesn't pkg_version use this information? If so, people would never > know about the upgrade/path unless they were on this list. Yes, pkg_version uses the information. It will show that there's a newer version of the port available when someone increases PORTREVISION, otherwise it will still flag it as being "up to date". That's one of the major reasons for doing this in the first place. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message