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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:35:13 +0100
From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Understanding port version numbering
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Is there any particular scheme for ports using decimals, commas, and/or
underscores in the version numbers?  Is there any way to tell if it means a
patch level, a FreeBSD-port only update, and so on?

jm
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