[114136] trunk/dports/databases/postgis2/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 1, 2013, at 03:25, Vincent Habchi wrote:

>> The epoch line is no more a wart than any other line of the Portfile… it’s just a syntax for accomplishing a task.
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> Thanks Blair Ryan for the explanation. I just wish there would be some other mechanism somehow able to tweak the ‘update detection’ script. E.g, considering that any X.Y.Z version is actually newer than X.Y.Z-…; more precisely, that any trailing hyphen indicates a development version.

That’s not always the case. For example, libtcd was updated from 2.2.5 to 2.2.5-r3 in r114005. 2.2.5-r3 is not a development or alpha or beta or release candidate version; it’s the third actual release of the stable version 2.2.5; it comes after 2.2.5.

It’s possible we could make vercmp smarter. But I would want to be careful that we don’t break any existing upgrades in the process.