Ports with version numbers going backwards: audio/festival

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 4 14:12:09 PST 2005


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:40:44PM -0500, chkversion wrote:
> ** The following ports have a version number that sorts before a previous one **
> 
>  For many package tools to work correctly, it is of utmost importance that
>  version numbers of a port form a monotonic increasing sequence over time.
>  Refer to the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook, 'Package Naming Conventions' for
>  more information. Tools that won't work include pkg_version, portupgrade
>  and portaudit. A common error is an accidental deletion of PORTEPOCH.
> 
>  Please fix any errors as soon as possible.
> 
> - *audio/festival* <trevor at FreeBSD.org>: festival-1.4.1_2 < festival-1.4.3
>    | revision 1.24
>    | date: 2005/03/04 15:20:28;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
>    | Restore previous port version (revert local change accidentally
>    | committed)
>    | 
>    | Submitted by:	Tod McQuillin <devin at spamcop.net>

Bah, the port is marked BROKEN before and after so this warning is
spurious.

Eik, are you around?

Kris 


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