Re: Local patch revision in PKGREVISION

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2017-07-13 at 10:12 BST, 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.

We have a similar requirement.  I'm mostly for this, but curious how
this particular scheme would work for a package which doesn't have
PKGREVISION set.

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