[32715] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-keywords.xml

[Boey Maun Suang]

On 12/01/2008, at 10:24 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I was led to believe that an epoch should never be decreased, ever,  
> once it has been added to a portfile, even if the port's version is  
> increased. I understood that the epoch takes precedence over the  
> version.

I'm pretty sure that that's still true; I haven't seen that part of  
the code altered.  I noticed last year that netpbm failed to upgrade  
on my machine until I forced it because somebody removed the epoch  
line in an earlier revision, in which case epoch is assumed to be zero.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

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