Binary packages not rebuilding against updated libraries

[Joshua Root]

On 2018-4-27 02:55 , Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 02:46:43 +1000 Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org>
> wrote:
>>> 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?  
>>
>> Sounds like a plan?
>> <https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038496.html>
>>
>> ;-P
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not sure I understand why the rev bump
> would still be necessary if we could tell the build bots to just
> rebuild the package at that point?

For all the usual reasons why stealth updates are bad. Also users aren't
guaranteed to have rev-upgrade turned on, which would be needed to
detect that anything has changed in this case.

- Josh