Ports with version numbers going backwards: net-p2p/azureus2

Rong-En Fan rafan at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 21 17:46:27 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 05:31:49PM +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.

As I noted in commit log, this port is just repocopied and not
connected to build. The is intentional.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

>  The ports tree was updated at Sat Jul 21 2007 16:32:01 UTC.
> 
> - *net-p2p/azureus2* <rnoland at 2hip.net>: azureus2-2.5.0.4 < azureus-3.0.1.6
>    | revision 1.46
>    | date: 2007/07/21 03:12:36;  author: rafan;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -5
>    | - Downgrade to 2.5.0.4. No PORTEPOCH is required since this port was just
>    |   copied from net-p2p/azureus and it's not connected to build yet.
>    | 
>    | PR:		ports/114486
>    | Submitted by:	Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net>
> 
> 


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