Ports with version numbers going backwards: misc/zoneinfo

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:04:18PM +0000, erwin at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> ** The following ports have a version number that sorts before a previous one **
> 
>  For many package tools to work correctly, it is of utmost importance that
>  version numbers of a port form a monotonic increasing sequence over time.
>  Refer to the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook, 'Package Naming Conventions' for
>  more information. Tools that won't work include pkg_version, portupgrade
>  and portaudit. A common error is an accidental deletion of PORTEPOCH.
> 
>  Please fix any errors as soon as possible.
> 
>  The ports tree was updated at Mon Nov 27 2006 15:00:45 UTC.
> 
> - *misc/zoneinfo* <edwin at mavetju.org>: zoneinfo-1 < zoneinfo-2006.o

That's an interesting side effect of combining DISTVERSION and
PORTREVISION...

Edwin

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