how to "downgrade" a port in the tree

[Tim Bishop]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 20:16, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 10:27 am, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > >> (10.13.2004 @ 1221 PST): John Nielsen said, in 1.3K: <<
> > > I'm not much of a programmer, but I am the port maintainer for the
> > > mail/hotwayd port.  The version in the tree is the latest available
> > > version, hotwayd 0.8.  However, there are some serious bugs in this
> > > version that result in mangled e-mail headers.
> 
> > Downgrading a port is perfectly acceptable in this situation. If you
> > cannot patch the 0.80 sources to unmangle the email addresses, submit a
> > PR downgrading it back to 0.74. All you need to do there is add
> > PORTEPOCH= 1
> 
> One more question:  If at some point a new version (say 0.8.1) is released, 
> will I need to do anything special to indicate that it is preferred over 
> hotwayd-0.7.4,1?  Should I remove the portepoch line, leave it alone, or 
> bump it up?

Leave the PORTEPOCH line - it can't go backwards now.

If a new version is released just increment the version as normal,
leaving PORTEPOCH alone.

Tim.

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