PORTVERSION when there is no upstream version number

[Scot Hetzel]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Manuel Wiesinger
<manuel at lungenarzt-wien.at> 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?
>
> 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
>

According to the Porters Handbook:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html

You can set PORTVERSION to 0.0.yyyy.mm.dd or 1.0 (if original author
is not going to release another version).

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