distname without version-number

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:40:20 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke 
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:38, Franz Klammer wrote:
>> hi!
>>
>> what should i do if i want to make a port with no version number?
>
> Give it a bogus version like 1.0 (it's the first FreeBSD port of this
> software).  PORTVERSION is required, and it has to be parsable by
> pkg_version.

Or, give the date when the tarball was created like yearmonthday 
(20031211). I think, this is better. :-)

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe
>
>>
>> franz.


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