Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:16:12 -0600 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to "downgrade" a port in the tree Message-ID: <200410131316.12430.john@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20041013162708.GO22274@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <200410131021.30311.john@jnielsen.net> <20041013162708.GO22274@toxic.magnesium.net>
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On Wednesday 13 October 2004 10:27 am, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> (10.13.2004 @ 1221 PST): John Nielsen said, in 1.3K: << > > I'm not much of a programmer, but I am the port maintainer for the > > mail/hotwayd port. The version in the tree is the latest available > > version, hotwayd 0.8. However, there are some serious bugs in this > > version that result in mangled e-mail headers. > Downgrading a port is perfectly acceptable in this situation. If you > cannot patch the 0.80 sources to unmangle the email addresses, submit a > PR downgrading it back to 0.74. All you need to do there is add > PORTEPOCH= 1 > and it will appear as a newer version to portupgrade(1). I don't > personally think that it's even necessary to append UPDATING for this. > Noting this situation in the commit message should be sufficient. Thanks for your speedy response. I've submitted a PR as you suggested (ports/72655). One more question: If at some point a new version (say 0.8.1) is released, will I need to do anything special to indicate that it is preferred over hotwayd-0.7.4,1? Should I remove the portepoch line, leave it alone, or bump it up? JN
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