[123602] trunk/dports/python/py-astropy/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> 
> On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:01 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
>>>> Anyone who had the previous file, including our automated systems, will now encounter a checksum mismatch. To fix this please follow the recipe for stealth updates:
>>>> 
>>>> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#stealth-updates
>>> 
>>> Why isn't this automatically done for revision bumps? This seems like
>>> another task that is needlessly manual.
>> 
>> A revision increase does not imply that a stealth update has occurred. A stealth update is a rare occurrence and port authors must manually indicate in a port when this has happened because how would you suggest we automatically infer that this has happened?
> 
> it wouldn't be horrible if setting a revision just changed dist_subdir automatically (even when it's not necessary), which I think is what Sean was suggesting.

I think that would be horrible. It would unnecessarily re-mirror distfiles on our server and all mirrors, greatly increasing mirror disk space requirements for no reason. It would also impose re-downloads for all users, wasting everyone's bandwidth and time. Our current process works; let's not change it.