Mark Hattam wrote:
> i thought that the number after the underscore on the end of the port
> name showed the version of the Portfile ... so even if the version of
> the software hadn't changed, a change in the Portfile and perhaps
> important things about the way it's set up and installed were reflected
> by a incrementing number, and these were shown up by port outdated.
> 
> For instance
>   freetype @2.3.4_0
>   freetype @2.3.4_1
>   freetype @2.3.5_0 (active)
> 
> So are portfile changes no longer reflected in this way? Or is there a
> different port command to show them up?

The revision number of a Portfile is incremented if there was an
important change. Through this, you are "forced" to rebuild the port
although the version of the software itself wasn't incremented.

Rainer
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