How to rename a port

Francois Claire fclaire at free.fr
Wed Feb 8 05:13:54 PST 2012


Hi Jeremy,
> Yes: create a new port with he right now (you can svn cp it to retain history) then mark the old one as replaced_by the new one. Revbump and everyone going to install the new revision gets sent to the replacement instead.
>
Thanks for your fast answer. Now I'll take some time to try to 
understand it :-)


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