Binary packages not rebuilding against updated libraries

[Rainer Müller]

On 2018-04-26 18:55, 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?

If you rebuild the archive, new installations will get the new version.
But what about existing installations?

We should get the updated port to users without forcing them to rebuild
locally from source. That requires to bump the revision.

https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038572.html

Rainer