Specifying a minumim version of a port that's required

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:52:10 +0200
Jacques Marneweck <jacques at powertrip.co.za> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For one of the ports which I'm busy writing the Makefile for,
> requires a specific version of p5-Danga-Socket or a later version,
> what would be the correct way of specifying version 1.43 or later for
> the Makefile? I've reading through the FreeBSD porters handbook and
> don't seem to find anything related having version numbers of the
> specified port installed.

From /usr/ports/CHANGES:

20050609:
AUTHOR: portmgr at FreeBSD.org
The following changes were introduced:

 [ ... ]

  * Add an ability to depend on versioned installed package.
    Example:

          BUILD_DEPENDS=p5-Tree-Simple>=1.12:${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-Tree-Simple

    Please note, it's experimental feature, work is currently in
    progress.



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