upgrade outdated conflicts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 19:35, Tom Allison wrote:

> I'm not certain about the incompatibility of postgres versions.  It  
> is a case by case issue, but generally the practice is to dump/ 
> upgrade/restore if there is any doubt.  For my development box,  
> it's not an issue.
>
> As for perl -- can you specific a minimum version requirement (>=  
> 5.8) instead of tagging it to a version.  This is something I've  
> seen in Debian, but I'm not familiar with the details of how they  
> do it.

No. You cannot declare a dependency on a version of a port. You can  
only declare a dependency on a port. Therefore there are separate  
ports for the different versions of software, for the cases where we  
want users to be able to choose which version.