My plan to fix the versioning for lang/gcc ports

Philip M. Gollucci pgollucci at p6m7g8.com
Wed May 20 03:19:50 UTC 2009


Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Currently we have versions of the following
> 
>   PORTVERSION=  4.3.4
>   PORTREVISION= 20090517
> 
> in the lang/gcc ports, where 20090517 is the date of a snapshot
> of GCC 4.3.4.  This has some obvious problems when one needs a
> PORTREVISION bump, so I am planning to change the versioning to
> 
>   PORTVERSION=  4.3.4.20090517
> 
> by concatenating the GCC release and the snapshot date.
> 
> Does any of you have any concerns with this?  Anything I might have
> missed?
> 
> Gerald @FreeBSD.org
Seems fine to me.

Fortunately its not yet the year 5000.
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