Macport outdated but not upgrade
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Feb 3 20:13:31 PST 2016
On Feb 3, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 05:17:13PM -0600, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>> It seems that it is a unix sort issue. Macports thinks that
>> "@1.9.4~dev.beta1-13-g632349b_0” comes before
>> "@1.9.4~dev-613-ga36a93f_0” and therefore it think that I don’t have
>> the newest version active (it happens to be wrong about that).
>
> Yes. If the version number goes backwards according to MacPorts'
> interpretation the epoch needs to be increased. Please contact whoever
> provides the port and notify them about that.
I agree that's what's happening here.
$ ~/macports/users/ryandesign/scripts/vercmp 1.9.4~dev-613-ga36a93f 1.9.4~dev.beta1-13-g632349b
MacPorts considers 1.9.4~dev-613-ga36a93f to be greater than 1.9.4~dev.beta1-13-g632349b.
The developer of the portfile needs to increase its epoch.
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