Yes, this would be good to have.

I think we should also set out (in Packages.txt) the occasions and
circumstances in which the revision number should be bumped.

Thanks,
Al

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:04:45AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> I'd like to commit a patch to bsd.pkg.mk (and a couple of package ;-) that
> gets rid of manually adding "nbX" to PKGNAME when a pkg was changed in
> pkgsrc. Instead, a new variable PKGREVISION is invented that can get
> bumped independent of DISTNAME and PKGNAME.
> 
> Example #1:
> 
> 	DISTNAME=	foo-X.Y
> 	PKGREVISION=	Z
>      =>	PKGNAME=	foo-X.YnbZ
> 
> Example #2:
> 	DISTNAME=	barthing-X.Y
> 	PKGNAME=	bar-X.Y
> 	PKGREVISION=	Z
>      => PKGNAME=	bar=X.YnbZ (!)
> 
> On subsequent changes, only PKGREVISION needs to be bumped, no more risk
> of getting DISTNAME changed accidentally.
> 
> The patch is available at:
> 
> 	http://www.feyrer.de/Misc/pkgrevision.patch
> 
> Comments? Please review, as I'd like to commit this soon. Thanks!
> 
> 
>  - Hubert
> 
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