On Oct 27, 2007, at 06:19, source_changes@macosforge.org wrote:

name rsync-devel -set date 20071004 -set time 0109 -version ${date}-${time} +set date 20071027 +set time 1300 +version pre4 categories net platforms darwin freebsd sunos maintainers rsync@reifferscheid.org description tool that provides fast incremental file transfer long_description \ + http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre4-NEWS \

[snip] The port version is naw "pre4"? That doesn't seem great. How will MacPorts know that "pre4" is supposed to be newer than "20071004-0109"? Perhaps the version should be "3.0.0pre4" as per the URL you added to the long description. Perhaps you need to start using the epoch in this portfile.