Ports with version numbers going backwards: deskutils/sunbird

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Sat Oct 14 11:01:23 PDT 2006


Fixed by add PORTEPOCH, thanks for report.

Cheers,
Mezz

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:54:09 -0500, <erwin at FreeBSD.org> 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.
>
> - *deskutils/sunbird* <gnome at FreeBSD.org>: sunbird-0.3 < sunbird-0.3a1_2
>    | revision 1.9
>    | date: 2006/10/14 08:52:42;  author: marcus;  state: Exp;  lines:  
> +16 -21
>    | Chase the GNOME X11BASE to LOCALBASE move, and fix the build with  
> the
>    | new freetype2 where needed.
>    |
>    | Submitted by:	mezz, ahze, pav, and many others
>    | Approved by:	portmgr (implicit, kris)


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