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Date:      Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:01:54 +0100
From:      Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Advice on dealing with upgraded devel port?
Message-ID:  <1078268513.35350.10.camel@hood.oook.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200403021655.22130.craig@yekse.gank.org>
References:  <200403021655.22130.craig@yekse.gank.org>

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V =FAt, 02. 03. 2004 v 23:55, Craig Boston p=ED=B9e:

> Hi, I'm a little new at port maintership, and I'd appreciate some tips on=
 the=20
> best way to handle an upgrade to stable/devel ports.
>=20
> The current situation is:
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> audio/audacity:    contains audacity 1.0.0 release (previous stable versi=
on)
> audio/audacity-devel:    audacity 1.2.0pre3 (development version, was=20
> repocopied from audio/audacity before being changed to 1.2.0)
>=20
> Now that 1.2.0 has been formally released, what is the best way to handle=
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> upgrade such as this:
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> Remove audacity and repocopy the devel version to it before upgrading?

No,

> Keep the old one around somewhere in case somebody needs it for some odd=20
> reason?

that's taken care by cvs automagically,

> Or just commit patches to upgrade audacity and remove the devel one=20
> altogether?

Yes! This is the way it's usually done.

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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
              <pav@FreeBSD.org>

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