svn commit: r349818 - head/www/nginx

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure, but maybe I misunderstood the behavior. Here was
> the chain of events:

Presuming that your mentor had explained[*] to you the differences between
PORTVERSION, DISTVERSION, PORTREVISION, and PORTEPOCH,

> - Update made to www/nginx that should require a PORTREVISION bump
> - Couldn't bump PORTREVISION and remove PORTEPOCH

Could you explain what exactly do you mean by "couldn't bump PORTREVISION"?
What prevented it from getting bumped?

> - Bumped PORTEPOCH instead

[*] Your mentor should have also mentioned that PORTEPOCH bumps should be
generally avoided, as it can never go back (well, there is a way to hack
around it, but it requires renaming the package, which makes it even more
ugly and discouraged).

./danfe