Subject: Re: P.S. [was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc]
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/03/2000 14:13:06
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	We need some magic tag to indicate NetBSD changes, otherwise
> > 	it is not safe to indicate them.
> > 
> > 	I would like to think we would crank the nb number every time
> > 	we commit any kind of noticible (to a user) fix to a package.
> 
> We could do what RPM does (expand the naming scheme from "name-vers" to
> "name-vers-pkgrev"), but that would need some substantial changes. 

	That would probably be a cleaner solution - though as you say,
	more work.

	I'm happy if we go for either nb<X> or name-vers-pkgrev, as
	long as we pick one. nb<X> is probably a better bet for 1.4.2
	though... :/


		David/absolute