How to make minor changes

James Raftery james at now.ie
Tue Oct 31 18:21:33 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:04:34PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> If I submit PRs for this, do I have to set PORTREVISION to 1?  Or does it 
> matter for such a minor change?

Incrementing PORTREVISION would invite users to `upgrade' their port. A
change to COMMENT does not warrant users reinstalling the port and so
does not warrant a change to PORTREVISION.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html#MAKEFILE-NAMING-REVEPOCH


james
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