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| author | abs <abs> | 2000-02-10 02:09:17 +0000 |
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| committer | abs <abs> | 2000-02-10 02:09:17 +0000 |
| commit | 50a68362a6912a2c56817a9b537074b0085607f5 (patch) | |
| tree | daaf83413b54a1f15e40671926e315ac62ca7830 /Packages.txt | |
| parent | 748ada9fdca69d3454de6180f3a6791ad8da9422 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-50a68362a6912a2c56817a9b537074b0085607f5.tar.gz | |
Add a brief section explaining the 'nb<N>' suffix.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Packages.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Packages.txt b/Packages.txt index 87754725248..d9d73aa974c 100644 --- a/Packages.txt +++ b/Packages.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.80 2000/01/14 10:32:35 abs Exp $ +# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.81 2000/02/10 02:09:17 abs Exp $ ########################################################################### ========================== @@ -1419,6 +1419,13 @@ from make that it doesn't know how to make /usr/share/tmap/tmac.andoc? This indicates that you don't have installed the "text" set on your machine (nroff, ...). Please do that. + 9.17 How to handle incrementing versions when fixing an existing package + ======================================================================== + +When making fixes to an existing package it can be useful to change +the version number in PKGNAME. To avoid conflicting with future versions +by the original author, use a 'nb1' suffix (later versions should +increment this to give 'nb2' and so on). 10 Submitting ============= |