Reviving a dead port

[Mark Linimon]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:45:34PM +0100, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
> First, this is not really a new port, but a revival of a dead one. is
> there specific issues with this?

No, just label it [new port], but put in the Description that it's
coming back from the Attic.

> Second, the port version I wrote is anachronic, since some people may
> have 1.46 installed (or prior 1.45.5 version, but PORT_REVISION can be
> used here so this is not an issue). What's the correct way (or least
> annoyance way) to handle this backtime travel?

See the description of PORTEPOCH in the Porter's Handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html#MAKEFILE-NAMING-REVEPOCH

mcl