2011/5/29 Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org>: > On 2011-05-28, wen heping <wenhep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As the REVISION, in my previous email I state I am not sure whether >> set REVISION=0 or remove that line, because some openbsd committer >> told me I should set REVISION=0, while some others told me it should >> be removed. >> >> Now I believe REVISION line should be removed when update. I hope this >> is the last answer. > > When you update to a newer version, you should remove REVISION but keep > any EPOCH lines.
Thank your clarification. wen > > Also: when you update you should also check that the package tools will > consider the new version as "newer" - if not, you must bump EPOCH. > packages-specs(7) has more details about this, it is particularly > important to know about this for Perl-related ports because version > numbering in CPAN often does _not_ follow the same rules. > > pkg_add ordering: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.11, 1.20 > typical cpan ordering: 1.1, 1.11, 1.2, 1.20, 1.3 > > >
