Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:25:21 -0700 (MST)
From:      Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?
Message-ID:  <200611150025.kAF0PMdv080454@chilled.skew.org>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
How should I handle this?

The software vendor version numbers go like this:
1.0b3 (older release)
1.0 (current release)
1.0.1 (upcoming release)

The port currently has PORTVERSION = 1.0.b3, and has not made use of 
DISTVERSION.

What's a good way to set PORTVERSION (and DISTVERSION, if needed) when I
update the port to the current and upcoming releases? I don't want the
PORTVERSION to go backwards. I assume that's what would happen if I set
it to just match the vendor's version numbers, and I assume that's bad.

Thanks for any advice!
Mike



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200611150025.kAF0PMdv080454>