Re: git: cfb6fe4117a4 - main - sysutils/gpu-firmware-kmod: Change it to be a metaport

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 19:09:04 UTC
On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 07:52:35PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 5/1/22 19:49, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 05:24:32PM +0000, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> >> commit cfb6fe4117a49b3c3bef886564bbaf38a4627fad
> >>
> >>      sysutils/gpu-firmware-kmod: Change it to be a metaport
> >> ...
> >> @@ -1,26 +1,95 @@
> >>   # Created by: Johannes Dieterich <jmd@FreeBSD.org>
> >>   
> >>   PORTNAME=	gpu-firmware-kmod
> >> -PORTVERSION=	g20210330
> >> +PORTVERSION=	20211014
> >> +PORTEPOCH=	1
> > 
> > What happened here?  Why bump the port epoch?
> 
> I think the "g" letter removed from the port version required this.

No need to guess when you can test:

  $ pkg version -t g20210330 20211014
  $ <

Not being a port committer, you might not know that the whole idea behind
g-prefix for e.g date-as-version tags is to *avoid* port epoch bump once
upstream switches to normal version scheme (if it ever does).

./danfe