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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:36:01 +1100
From:      "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
To:        "Mike Brown" <mike@skew.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?
Message-ID:  <ee77f5c20611141636p695c7129j71f52921489b9128@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200611150025.kAF0PMdv080454@chilled.skew.org>
References:  <200611150025.kAF0PMdv080454@chilled.skew.org>

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On 11/15/06, Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> wrote:
> How should I handle this?
>
> The software vendor version numbers go like this:
> 1.0b3 (older release)
> 1.0 (current release)
> 1.0.1 (upcoming release)
>
> The port currently has PORTVERSION = 1.0.b3, and has not made use of
> DISTVERSION.

Use PORTEPOCH.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html#MAKEFILE-NAMING-REVEPOCH


Dave.

-- 
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