database tables for VuXML

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Wed Aug 25 00:41:04 PDT 2004


Dan Langille wrote:

> On 25 Aug 2004 at 0:35, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
>
>> Dan Langille wrote:
>>
>>> FreshPorts stores PORTVERSION and PORTREVISION as separate text
>>> fields.  I take it that the ranges equations should compare only
>>> PORTVERSION and ignore PORTREVISION.
>>
>> Please not. pkg_version -t is the reference here, when you get 
>> different
>> results something is wrong
>
> I'm confused.  FreshPorts obtains information primarily via "make -
> V". pkg_version works on installed ports only.  FreshPorts is not
> gong to install a port to find out what version we have.  Are we
> talking about the same thing?

   <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_version>

-Oliver



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