distname without version-number

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:54, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 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. :-)

Except, it looking at the port, when the distfile is re-rolled, you'll
get checksum mismatches.  It might be better to host snapshots of the
distfile on your own server, Franz, and do what Jeremy suggests:

seti-2003.11.12.tar.gz

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > Joe
> >
> >>
> >> franz.
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