PortGroup versions

[Rainer Müller]

On 2011-08-25 02:46 , Joshua Root wrote:
> We discussed the fact that portgroup changes could break portfiles
> stored in the registry at the time that registry2.0 was integrated, and
> decided that having pre/post deactivate/uninstall working most of the
> time was valuable even if all the possible pitfalls weren't covered.
> Uninstall and deactivate are specifically written to still work even if
> executing the portfile fails.

I am aware that deactivate will still work. But to avoid warnings and
errors we have to be careful about changes to port groups and increment
the version number when changes to port groups would break installed ports.

Rainer