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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 b/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 index cf33526d69a..1d90496d531 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: packages-specs.7,v 1.25 2014/10/27 22:45:30 gsoares Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: packages-specs.7,v 1.26 2020/03/26 14:58:35 paco Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2001 Marc Espie .\" @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 27 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2020 $ .Dt PACKAGES-SPECS 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -144,15 +144,20 @@ then normal version, and finally .El .El .Pp -In some rare cases, version numbering changes completely upstream. +In some rare cases, a change to a port would cause the version number to +compare as older than the previous version. +This happens if an update is reverted, if upstream's numbering scheme changes +completely, or if their usual scheme does not align with the one used by +.Ox . A version style marker, of the form .Sq v0 , .Sq v1 ... can be appended to the version number (after the patch level) to denote the new numbering scheme. -See +This marker is added by setting .Ev EPOCH -in +in the port Makefile and it takes precedence over the regular package version. +See .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 . .Pp Flavored packages will also contain a list of flavors after the version |