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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:08:00 +0100
From:      Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bill Coffman <bill.coffman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: port versions
Message-ID:  <41ED88C0.1090805@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <6f9c15f8050118105132e37e02@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6f9c15f8050118105132e37e02@mail.gmail.com>

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Bill Coffman wrote:
> My friend, who is an expert in Linux, but not FreeBSD, told me that
> the "a" meant that this is alpha code.  Is this correct?  Seems wrong
> to me.

It is wrong. In MySQL case an appended "a" means that the tarball has 
been repackaged to fix a small bug in release (and 4.1 serie is 
production quality.

-- 
Alex Dupre



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