'Re-versioning' a port?

Simon L. Nielsen simon at nitro.dk
Wed May 14 01:51:05 PDT 2003


On 2003.05.14 10:48:14 +0200, Volker Stolz wrote:
> For www/eldav.el I've been using the version from the master file's
> CVS-tag because it was a simple Lisp-file distributed as plain text.
> However, recently the author finally decided to package some additional
> files into a tarball and use a versiong scheme. So, while the last
> FreeBSD port version was 1.17, the author's version now is 0.7!
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated! Is there a standard procedure
> for handling this?

Look at PORTEPOCH - that should handle it.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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