database tables for VuXML
Dan Langille
dan at langille.org
Tue Aug 24 17:53:29 PDT 2004
On 25 Aug 2004 at 0:35, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Dan Langille wrote:
>
> > FreshPorts stores PORTVERSION and PORTREVISION as separate text
> > fields. I take it that the ranges equations should compare only
> > PORTVERSION and ignore PORTREVISION.
>
> Please not. pkg_version -t is the reference here, when you get different
> results something is wrong
I'm confused. FreshPorts obtains information primarily via "make -
V". pkg_version works on installed ports only. FreshPorts is not
gong to install a port to find out what version we have. Are we
talking about the same thing?
> (and ignoring PORTREVISION will get you different results).
> Also keep in mind that PORTEPOCH is an essential component.
That's news to me. Thanks. I see it is used to create PKGNAME.
Looking at range data of vuxml, I see now that PORTEPOCH is used.
OK. Thanks for the heads up.
--
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
More information about the freebsd-ports
mailing list