Subject: Re: Strange version problem
To: None <Knappe@tu-harburg.de>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/02/2003 16:43:29
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Frank Knappe wrote:

> # Fetch mplayer/MPlayer-0.90rc3.tar.bz2 (3285759 bytes):
>
> Why does pkgsrc tries to fetch rc3 instead of rc13?

It's my fault -- I named the the 0.90pre3 package '0.90rc3', because
we have support for "rc" version numbers, but not "pre" (or not to my
knowledge, at the time). So to distinguish, when rc's came along, I
just added "10" to the bona fide "rc"'s. There really is no rc13.
There may be an rc4 before the final, but hopefully, that'll be it.

Frederick