Re: Local patch revision in PKGREVISION

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> 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.

By local I mean not committed to pkgsrc. The built packages are used by 
customers' machines, so the change needs to be noticed by them.

--
Stephen