From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Dec 10 17:54: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873AE37B405; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:54:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBB1rtW07788; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:53:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:53:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: marcus@marcuscom.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bison port Message-ID: <20011210175355.A2398@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20011210141716.A36250@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112110134.DAA23251@ipcard.iptcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112110134.DAA23251@ipcard.iptcom.net>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:34:07AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:34:07AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:17:16 -0800, 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. > > No, there is no such assumption. PORTEPOCH needs to be increased > unconditionally each time when PORTREVISION for some reason is > decreased and should never be decreased (or deleted which simply sets > it to 0) even if underlying PORTVERSION has increased above the level > at which PORTEPOCH was introduced. Then I'm backing out the downgrade and we will just live with 1.30. This PORTEPOCH for life situation is stupid. Why can't it be removed? 1.31,0 is greater than 1.28,* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message