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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