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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:36:01 +1100
From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?
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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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