cvs commit: ports/devel/scons Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Mon Jul 13 17:08:29 UTC 2009


On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>   - Update to checkpoint release 1.2.0_20090223
> This change is wrong; PORTREVISION should not be used to encode any
> software version part; its sole purpose for ports infrastructure only.
> For complex vendor versions, DISTVERSION should be used instead.  Right
> now, for instance, you've essentially made impossible to bump PORTREVISION,
> shall it be required for any reason, without introducing ugly hacks.

This sounds very familiar to the status quo I maintained with the lang/gcc 
ports for some years which I then resolved a few months ago.  Philip, you
may want to have a look at lang/gcc43 for an example how I addressed this
there -- and if you find improvements, let me know. ;-)

Gerald


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