Re: Re: git: b5724fc17272 - main - lang/gcc14-devel: fix build by bumping PORTREVISION

On Sunday, January 28th, 2024 at 09:42, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 08:07:35AM +0000, Lorenzo Salvadore wrote:
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> > Thanks, but this is not how you bump PORTREVISION with lang/gcc14-devel: you need to define PORTREVISION as usual, which will append _1 to the end of PKGVERSION as usual.
> > Actually, I think the distfile won't even be fetched now.
> > Now I will need to define PORTEPOCH to fix the issue. Not a big deal anyway: GCC ports live long in the ports tree, but not forever.
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> So, as you pointed out, the port could not be built.
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> PORTEPOCH is there to allow our tools to know that a package's version
> is newer than the one that is installed.
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> As the port could not be built, there could not have been a package with
> the bogus PORTVERSION, so, bumping PORTEPOCH was not needed.
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> --
> Mathieu Arnold

Oh sorry. Thanks for the explanation. I will remember it next time.

Cheers,

Lorenzo Salvadore