cvs commit: ports/shells/bash Makefile pkg-plist

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:34:26PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:54:01AM +0000, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> >>osa         2009-03-12 09:54:01 UTC
> >>  FreeBSD ports repository
> >>  Modified files:
> >>    shells/bash          Makefile pkg-plist 
> >>  Log:
> >>  Fix pkg-plist.
> >>  Bump PORTREVISION.
> >
> >Thanks for fixing the PLIST (much appreciated), but why did you bump
> >PORTREVISION for a PLIST change?
> >
> >There is zero reason to force a reinstall for a PLIST change.  Either the
> >port is already installed (and the user can wait for some other reason to
> >update), or the port isn't installed and bumping PORTREVISION does
> >nothing.
> 
> It's needed for package cluster, otherwise it does not know to rebuild 
> and will serve incomplete package forever.

Is there ever a change then that doesn't require a bump in either
PORTREVISION or PORTVERSION?

If not, maybe we should do away with PORTREVISION and use something like:

${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}_${VCS_ID}

That way the revision # would automatically be bumped with every commit.

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-- David    (obrien at FreeBSD.org)