Help with versioning scheme

[Freddie Cash]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de>
wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> > Am 17.01.2018 um 19:19 schrieb Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org>:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > You don't want to use the upstream version to represent PORTREVISION.
> PORTREVISION is for when you need to force rebuilds of the port itself, and
> so tying it to upstream would make it impossible to bump it ourselves.
> >
> > Why do you need to ignore the fourth digit? It's perfectly valid for our
> purposes.
>
> So far, I had (because it coincided with their version number) used it to
> provide SO_VER. But that breaks now:
>
> ---
> # Created by: adamw
> # $FreeBSD: head/archivers/liblz4/Makefile 448415 2017-08-20 12:30:25Z
> sunpoet $
>
> PORTNAME=       lz4
> PORTVERSION=    1.8.1
> DISTVERSIONPREFIX=      v
> PORTEPOCH=      1
> CATEGORIES=     archivers
> PKGNAMEPREFIX=  lib
>
> MAINTAINER=     martin at waschbuesch.de
> COMMENT=        LZ4 compression library, lossless and very fast
>
> LICENSE=        BSD2CLAUSE GPLv2
> LICENSE_COMB=   multi
>
> USES=           gmake pathfix pkgconfig
> USE_GITHUB=     yes
> USE_LDCONFIG=   yes
> #PATHFIX_MAKEFILEIN=    Makefile
>
> ALL_TARGET=     default         # don't remove this
> SO_VER=         ${PORTVERSION}
> PLIST_SUB+=     SO_VER=${SO_VER} SO_VER_MAJ=${SO_VER:R:R}
>

​Why can't you do something like the above to get SO_VER?

PORTVERSION=1.8.1.2
SO_VER=${PORTVERSION:R:R:R)

Similar to how you get SO_VER_MAJ out of SO_VER.​

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