On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:11:14PM +0100, Paco Esteban wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2020, Marc Espie wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:28:25PM +0100, Paco Esteban wrote:
> > > oh, that did not occur to me ... You mean that if port foo/bar gets
> > > EPOCH = 0, then all dependent ports should change it's dependencies
> > > declarations from foo/bar>=1.1 to foo/bar>=1.1v0 ??
> >
> > Yes, that's the main reason that led to introducing PKGSPEC in bsd.port.mk
> > and tweaking _print-metadata, so we didn't hav to change every
> > dependent port.
> >
> > You still need to bump REVISION in dependent port when you change PKGSPEC
> > though.
>
> Thanks Marc, I tried to include that too.
> All patches updated and attached again.
Oh sorry, I only intended to explain the history of things.
I think that PKGSPEC is too much detail in the documentation. It's
still supposed to be a reference manual, this does not belong in the man
page, possibly in the web page, but this will turn people away from
the manpage.
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