On Wednesday 15 November 2006 01:25, Mike Brown wrote: > 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.
See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html#AEN521 -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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