"Confused" PORTREVISION

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Mon Dec 25 05:23:15 UTC 2017


On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:

> On 24 Dec, 2017, at 20:03, Walter Schwarzenfeld <w.schwarzenfeld at utanet.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>> But
>>
>> RUBY_RELVERSION=        2.3.6
>> RUBY_PORTREVISION=      0     <=
>> RUBY_PORTEPOCH=         1
>> RUBY_PATCHLEVEL=        0
>> RUBY23=                 ""      # PLIST_SUB helpers
>>
>> PORTREVISION=0 confuses pkg version
>>
>> pkg version |grep ruby23
>> ruby23-2.3.6,1                   <
>>
>> this is the version which is installed.
>>
>
> PORTREVISION=0 is treated as if it were unset. Some people prefer using
> that construct because it keeps line numbers consistent in the SVN history.
>
> # Adam


The Porters Handbook now calls for the use of portrevision=0.
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