Port Version Numbering Question

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:19:22PM -0600, Mark Kane wrote:
> Hi everyone. I'm nearing completion of my second FreeBSD port, however I
> have a quick question about a version number.
> 
> The version as the author released it is "0.2.6-3". Since this is a new
> port to the FreeBSD ports collection and there was no "0.2.6-1" or
> "0.2.6-2" of this software actually released, I'm not sure if I should
> use PORTREVISION to call it "0.2.6_3" or if I should simply use
> PORTVERSION to call it "0.2.6.3". If neither are correct then how would
> I do this properly?

I think 0.2.6.3 is probably right, but not knowing what the authors are
thinking, it's hard to say.  If you just set DISTVERSION=0.2.6-3 I'm
pretty sure PORTVERSION will end up with 0.2.6.3.  I recently discovered
this feature and it's really handy since you can get automatic DISTFILE
setting in many cases where it wouldn't work if you set PORTVERSION.

-- Brooks

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