how to "downgrade" a port in the tree

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (10.13.2004 @ 1516 PST): John Nielsen said, in 1.1K: <<
> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 10:27 am, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > >> (10.13.2004 @ 1221 PST): John Nielsen said, in 1.3K: <<
> > > I'm not much of a programmer, but I am the port maintainer for the
> > > mail/hotwayd port.  The version in the tree is the latest available
> > > version, hotwayd 0.8.  However, there are some serious bugs in this
> > > version that result in mangled e-mail headers.
> 
> > Downgrading a port is perfectly acceptable in this situation. If you
> > cannot patch the 0.80 sources to unmangle the email addresses, submit a
> > PR downgrading it back to 0.74. All you need to do there is add
> > PORTEPOCH= 1
> > and it will appear as a newer version to portupgrade(1). I don't
> > personally think that it's even necessary to append UPDATING for this.
> > Noting this situation in the commit message should be sufficient.
> 
> Thanks for your speedy response.  I've submitted a PR as you suggested 
> (ports/72655).
> 
> One more question:  If at some point a new version (say 0.8.1) is released, 
> will I need to do anything special to indicate that it is preferred over 
> hotwayd-0.7.4,1?  Should I remove the portepoch line, leave it alone, or 
> bump it up?
> 
> JN
>> end of "Re: how to "downgrade" a port in the tree" from John Nielsen <<

Just leave the line alone. Only bump it if the PORTVERSION does
downwards, and only remove it at peril of a stream of angry emails.

# Adam


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