Macport outdated but not upgrade

[Ryan Schmidt]

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.