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

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 23 21:30:37 PDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:23:25PM -0400, Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:14:13PM +0000, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:34:26PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > David O'Brien wrote:
> > > >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?
..
> Just changing the maintainer should not require the user to do anything.

That is the only case I can think of.  Even changing the comment or
pkg-descr should have its PORTREVISION bumped in order to get a new
package built so users have the fresh description.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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