how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?

2006-11-14 Thread Mike Brown
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) wh

Re: how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?

2006-11-14 Thread Max Laier
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.

Re: how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?

2006-11-14 Thread David Symonds
On 11/15/06, Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Use PORTEPOCH.

Re: how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?

2006-11-15 Thread Mike Brown
David Symonds wrote: > Use PORTEPOCH. Thanks to all who replied. I had looked right at the relevant section in the handbook and thought it didn't apply to my situation, but clearly it does :) Sorry for my confusion. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Re: how to keep PORTVERSION from going backwards?

2006-11-15 Thread Shaun Amott
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:25:21PM -0700, 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 > D