ports/58588: port dns/bind9: PORTEPOCH must be increased

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:51:32PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> >Synopsis: port dns/bind9: PORTEPOCH must be increased
> >
> >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> >State-Changed-By: dougb
> >State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 27 13:16:17 PST 2003
> >State-Changed-Why: 
> >
> >I can't be responsible for the problems of other ports. :)
> >The ports system won't allow 9.2.3rc4 as a version, and the
> >other tools choke on 9.2.3.4 < 9.2.3, and I'm definitely not
> >going to update portepoch, so the solutio has to be found
> >elsewhere.
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58588
> 
> That's the way the port tools work. The FreeBSD Porter's Handbook
> recommends using 9.2.3.r4 for 9.2.3rc4:
>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html
> and indeed:
> # pkg_version -t 9.2.3.r4 9.2.3
> <
> 
> People using portupgrade are missing the update to the release
> version. What is the problem with bumping the PORTEPOCH?

Oliver's right..the version numbering system is standard across the
Ports collection, and it is an error for the port revision of a port
to ever go backwards according to the rules encoded in pkg_version -t.

Kris
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