Re: Local patch revision in PKGREVISION

[D'Arcy Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 07/13/2017 05:11 AM, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> I sometimes have the need to note that a package has changed due to a 
> local patch or an option change. I could just locally bump PKGREVISION, 
> but that would be bad. I'd prefer to have a supported suffix to 
> PKGREVISION. For example, PKGREVISION= 2p1 would be newer than 2, but 
> older than 3.

If it's strictly local why bother?  Just "make replace" or remove the 
package before rebuilding.  PKGREVISION is meant for causing rebuilds 
when the user doesn't realize that a change has been made e.g. when 
running pkg_rolling-replace.

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