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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 10:50:29AM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> under ports/net/nitpicker we have Version 1.23.
> Now there is a upgrade available for this software.
> The author wants to go to a versionnumber 1.2.1 though
> (1.23 was an internal revision number)
> 
> Is it possible to migrate vom 1.23 -> 1.2.1 without grief?
> Or do I have to use somthing like PORTEPOCH...

Yeah, that's what PORTEPOCH is for. Just set it to 1 and it will
see that 1.2.1,1 is newer than 1.23

> Patch (w/o PORTEPOCH) is attached.

Please send-pr it.

Edwin

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