PORTVERSION when there is no upstream version number

[Matthew Seaman]

On 10/21/14 14:45, Manuel Wiesinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is the best practice for setting PORTVERSION, when the upstream
> port has no version number? Is it fine to go with the date like 20141021?
> 

Using the date in this sort of case is a pretty good idea, but you
should prefix it by '0.0.'. The porter's handbook says:

"The idea is to make it easier to sort ports by looking at the version
string. In particular, make sure version number components are always
delimited by a period, and if the date is part of the string, use the
0.0.yyyy.mm.dd format, not dd.mm.yyyy or the non-Y2K compliant yy.mm.dd
format. It is important to prefix the version with 0.0. in case a
release with an actual version number is made, which would be
numerically less than yyyy."

> I'm trying to port postscreen-stats, which is just a collection of small
> scripts without any version numbering.
> See: https://github.com/jvehent/Postscreen-Stats

However, since you're porting something distributed via Github see the
specific instructions here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#5.4.2.1

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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