MacPorts 2.1.0 has been released

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue May 15 12:42:50 PDT 2012


On 2012-5-16 05:31 , Marko Käning wrote:
> Great job, Josh and all the other MacPorts devs!!!
> 
> 
> I just discovered messages like this also for my non-/opt/local installations:
> ---
> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
> --->  Found 19 broken file(s), matching files to ports
> --->  Found 6 broken port(s), determining rebuild order
> --->  Rebuilding in order
>      phonon @4.6.0 
>      kde4-runtime @4.8.2 
>      kdepimlibs4 @4.8.2 
>      kmymoney4 @4.6.2 +no_x11
>      kdelibs4 @4.8.2 
>      strigi @0.7.5 
> ---
> 
> Well, it looks like that this cool feature will ease the life of all port maintainers, since one doesn't need to think about all the revbumps for dependent ports anymore… (If I understood this right.) :-)

It will ease the life of users a lot; port maintainers a little less so.
You still want to rev bump the dependents so users don't have to install
them multiple times.

Setting rev-upgrade to only report the breakage is a great way to know
what you have installed that needs rev bumping.

- Josh


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