port versions

[Bill Coffman]

Thanks for the info.

Since we're on the subject, I was wondering about other conventions
for port versions.  Sometimes it's "_1" or "_2" and sometimes it's
like "p5-DBD-mysql40-2.9004_1".  Is there any reason for all these, or
are they just left to the variable discretion of the port maintainer?

Thanks,
-Bill


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:08:00 +0100, Alex Dupre <ale at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Bill Coffman wrote:
> > My friend, who is an expert in Linux, but not FreeBSD, told me that
> > the "a" meant that this is alpha code.  Is this correct?  Seems wrong
> > to me.
> 
> It is wrong. In MySQL case an appended "a" means that the tarball has
> been repackaged to fix a small bug in release (and 4.1 serie is
> production quality.
> 
> --
> Alex Dupre
>