Binary packages not rebuilding against updated libraries

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Apr 26 16:46:43 UTC 2018


On 2018-4-27 02:14 , Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 01:09:49 +1000 Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org>
> wrote:
>> On 2018-4-27 01:03 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>> On Apr 26, 2018, at 10:00, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Well, right now we're manually bumping "revision" in dependent
>>>> ports when we upgrade a port that is depended on, right? This
>>>> seems to indicate that the current way isn't automatic. Or maybe
>>>> I'm misunderstanding?  
>>>
>>> You're correct.  
>>
>> Except we don't rev bump every time a dependency is upgraded, only
>> when it breaks ABI compatibility. Detecting this situation and
>> rebuilding locally is automatic. Actually increasing the revision
>> of the dependents so updated archives are made available is not.
> 
> So what might work would be trying out installing the archives in a
> sandbox and using the same mechanism that's used locally before
> triggering a rebuild?

Sounds like a plan?
<https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038496.html>

;-P

- Josh


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