Binary packages not rebuilding against updated libraries

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 01:09:49 +1000 Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org>
wrote:
> On 2018-4-27 01:03 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > 
> > On Apr 26, 2018, at 10:00, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >   
> >> Well, right now we're manually bumping "revision" in dependent
> >> ports when we upgrade a port that is depended on, right? This
> >> seems to indicate that the current way isn't automatic. Or maybe
> >> I'm misunderstanding?  
> > 
> > You're correct.  
> 
> Except we don't rev bump every time a dependency is upgraded, only
> when it breaks ABI compatibility. Detecting this situation and
> rebuilding locally is automatic. Actually increasing the revision
> of the dependents so updated archives are made available is not.

So what might work would be trying out installing the archives in a
sandbox and using the same mechanism that's used locally before
triggering a rebuild?

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		pmetzger at macports.org