Ports with version numbers going backwards: misc/zoneinfo

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:53:53AM +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 03:38:49PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:28:18PM +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 19:56:44 UTC.
> > 
> > You might want to run this check only when your ports tree is updated
> > since the last time you ran this check.
> > 
> Not sure what your point is:
> Last run: Mon Nov 27 2006 15:00:45 UTC
> This run: Mon Nov 27 2006 19:56:44 UTC
> 
> Your commit was probably between Mon Nov 27 2006 19:56:44 UTC and
> Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:28:18 GMT when the script finished and the mail
> was sent.  Feel free to donate hardware so it doesn't take 5 hours to
> run :-)

Must have been the time-out on mx1.freebsd.org which made it come
so far, totally confusing my interpration of the timestamp. Apologies!

Edwin

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