On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:11:14PM +0100, Paco Esteban wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2020, Marc Espie wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:28:25PM +0100, Paco Esteban wrote: > > > oh, that did not occur to me ... You mean that if port foo/bar gets > > > EPOCH = 0, then all dependent ports should change it's dependencies > > > declarations from foo/bar>=1.1 to foo/bar>=1.1v0 ?? > > > > Yes, that's the main reason that led to introducing PKGSPEC in bsd.port.mk > > and tweaking _print-metadata, so we didn't hav to change every > > dependent port. > > > > You still need to bump REVISION in dependent port when you change PKGSPEC > > though. > > Thanks Marc, I tried to include that too. > All patches updated and attached again.
Oh sorry, I only intended to explain the history of things. I think that PKGSPEC is too much detail in the documentation. It's still supposed to be a reference manual, this does not belong in the man page, possibly in the web page, but this will turn people away from the manpage.
