port install efficiency issue

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 22, 2009, at 02:34, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:58:33PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
> [...]
>>
>> There are valid reasons for wanting to rebuild a port that's already
>> installed. But it's probably reasonable to require the use of the - 
>> f flag
>> in those situations. And I believe that's what is supposed to be
>> implemented. But there appears to be a bug somewhere. I don't know  
>> if a
>> ticket is already filed about this.
>
> I think port not only pays attention to epoch/version/revision but  
> also the
> timestamp of Portfile; when Portfile is newer than the install,  
> even when
> the versioning says it's already installed, it'll run again.

I would not have expected that.

If a rebuild is needed, the maintainer needs to increase the  
revision, version, or epoch.