Fixing binary distributability & revbump

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Jan 31 18:03:28 UTC 2017



> On Jan 31, 2017, at 03:29, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it necessary to use a revbump when fixing a port for binary distributability?

It isn't supposed to be necessary but you've found a bug in how we're excluding ports from being built on the buildbot...

> For example:
> 
> https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.7_x86_64_legacy-watcher/builds/4522
> 
> doesn't upload any archives because the binary already existed (that's
> partially on my request, so if anything, I'm to be blamed as well :)
> 
> 
> The port uses a GPL3+ licence and calls ghostscript at runtime (it
> doesn't link with it or anything) and ghoscript uses a GPL2-licenced
> libpaper for something (I didn't investigate what exactly). So I guess
> there is no issue with a licence conflict.
> 
> Mojca



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