Ports updated without maintainer notification?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 7, 2021, at 01:59, Jason Liu wrote:

> I've run across a situation that has left me confused. I started updating some of the portfiles for which I'm the maintainer, and then I noticed that the portfiles seem to have already been updated in git. However, I can't find any PRs for such an update, and I was never notified that the ports for which I'm the maintainer was getting updated... usually, if someone submits a PR for a portfile for which I'm the maintainer, I get a notification through GitHub.

If your ports are marked openmaintainer, that gives permission to others to make minor modifications to your ports without notifying you. Not all changes happen via PRs; some are committed directly to master.

If there is an urgent issue that needs to be fixed in a port, someone else might make that fix, even if the port is not marked openmaintainer.

If you let us know specifically which ports, we could take a look.


> In addition, I have run a "port selfupdate" on my machine, and yet the MacPorts on my machine isn't seeing the new version of the port. Is something broken, either on my machine, or on GitHub?

If your MacPorts is configured to get ports via rsync, it can take an hour for changes to propagate from git to the main rsync server, and up to a day longer for changes to propagate from there to other rsync mirrors.