base behavior; during dependencies modify request port

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Jul 6 16:04:19 PDT 2011


On Jul 6, 2011, at 17:16, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> I just noticed something interesting: MacPorts noticed I had updated the Portfile for my requested configure `port configure pspp` after it was done installing all the dependencies but kept the old checksums and passed downloading as if nothing had changed. Next when I ran `port build pspp` it failed because it couldn't find worksrcpath.
> 
> Are we not completely reloading the portfile information after a detected change _IF_ we've been doing builds for dependencies first? Could be interesting to see how that'd impact a build farm if a portfile update is accidentally pulled in during a build. I'll try recreating the situation after I'm done with some builds ...


Maybe you hit this bug?

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29223




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