future enhanced rev-upgrade

René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 21:22:02 UTC 2018


Hi,

Clemens said something about an enhanced rev-upgrade that would be part of MacPorts 2.5 .

Apologies if this has already been considered, but I think it could be useful if `port rev-upgrade` detected more than just issues with binaries and missing files. In particular, I'd like to see a way for ports to register that they depend on specific files (or directories) from a given dependency.

I don't think that currently situations are detected by rev-upgrade when a dependency port provides required files in a directory with a different name or stops providing a given required file.

R.


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