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Date:      Mon, 1 May 2006 21:38:51 +0200
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com>
To:        Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portversion and distversion - why not?
Message-ID:  <20060501193851.GA54315@voodoo.bawue.com>
In-Reply-To: <cb5206420605011232j5cff24c4hea0e41e3a7493bef@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <cb5206420605011232j5cff24c4hea0e41e3a7493bef@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:32:55PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> Portlint says:
> FATAL: Makefile: either PORTVERSION or DISTVERSION must be specified, not 
> both.
> 
> Can somebody please explain why? It comes in handy
> to be able to define illegal distversion instead of redefining
> the whole distname. B.p.m was designed to handle two
> different variables in the first place. Should we really
> abstain from using this functionality?

DISTVERSION is just conform conversion of PORTVERSION, I don't see a
reason to specify both.

-Kirill



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