Archive behavior on epoch-bump

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 25, 2013, at 04:50, Clemens Lang wrote:

> can somebody with more insight into the binary archives shed light on
> what will happen if I epoch-bump a number of ports, but neither change
> version nor revision? Will users end up downloading an old copy of the
> port from packages.macports.org in that case? It seems to me the epoch
> isn't encoded in the filename for our binary archives (see libedit[1] as
> an example).

Yes, that's what I would expect to happen.


> The background here is that all haskell packages need to be rebuilt
> whenever GHC is updated. Can I avoid touching each port by adding an
> epoch line to the Haskell PortGroup? I suppose that might not be enough,
> because portindex wouldn't reindex the changed ports then, right? What's
> the best way to overcome this situation?

Revbump each portfile individually.