From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Dec 10 15:14:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (yadt.demon.co.uk [158.152.4.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EA6D37B420 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 62722 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 23:14:33 -0000 Received: from gattaca.local.yadt.co.uk (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (qmailr@10.0.0.2) by xfiles.yadt.co.uk with SMTP; 10 Dec 2001 23:14:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 16504 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Dec 2001 23:14:33 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:14:33 +0000 From: David Taylor To: David O'Brien Cc: Joe Clarke , Maxim Sobolev , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bison port Message-ID: <20011210231433.A16085@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Joe Clarke , Maxim Sobolev , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20011210141048.A36083@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011210171148.K17865-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20011210141716.A36250@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011210141716.A36250@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 14:17:16 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:12:19PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote: > > According to the Porter's Handbook, PORTEPOCH never goes away. This > > number can never be decremented....unless you rename the port, I guess. > > I believe the assumption there is that the version number will never > surpase some previous value. That is not the case here. But 1.28,1 is greater than 1.28,0 1.30,0 1.31,0 or 9.999999,0... -- David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message