nasm and/or pkg utils weirdness

Simon L. Nielsen simon at nitro.dk
Sat Mar 29 09:12:36 PST 2003


On 2003.03.29 12:04:10 -0500, Matthew Donadio wrote:

> I did a cvsup of the ports tree the other day, and an diff to nasm was
> included.
> 
> /usr/ports/devel/nasm/Makefile has a version number of 0.98.35 in it
> 
> My installed version according to pkg_info is 0.98.33,1
> 
> pkg_version is saying that my installed version has a higher version
> number that the one in my local ports tree.  In other words, I am
> getting a > next to nasm with a plain pkg_version.
> 
> Am I correct to assume that this is a bug in the way the pkg utils
> compute version number differences?

No the problem is that the update removed PORTEPOCH.  I would expect
this to be fixed soon but I think murray have been busy with the 4.8
release.

In the meantime you can just add
PORTEPOCH=	1
to the makefile and it should be ok again.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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