Ports with version numbers going backwards: deskutils/sunbird

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:00:27PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> For future reference, take a look at how I handle this in the BIND 
> ports. If you'd named the _port_ 0.3.a1_2, then when 0.3 comes out, 
> pkg_version is smart enough to know that it's > 0.3.a*.
> 
> hth,
> 
> Doug
> 
> PS, PORTEPOCH is evil, and must die.

While it's true that a bit of forethought (and sometimes some creative
renumbering when it's not too confusing) can often avoid the need for
PORTEPOCH, as long as vendors do stupid numbering changes there'll
always be a need for it.

Kris
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