ports/*/jpeg "Thanks a lot guys"

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Jul 31 21:51:55 UTC 2009


On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:36:36 -0500, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>  
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:12:49PM -0400, Jason J. Hellenthal wrote:
>>
>> Now that I have finally upgraded my system in full from the last mix-up
>> with jpeg, You guys have bumped up every PORTREVISION that depends on  
>> jpeg
>> "Great real great" Now I get to spend another three days fixing up some
>> more packages and rebuilding about 800+ ports.
>>
>> Thanks a whole lot.
>
> Nobody is forcing you to rebuild your ports just because the PORTREVISION
> was bumped.  If everything works fine for you there is actually no good
> reason at all to do so.

Yes, but how can you tell if there is newer version? The pkg_version and  
pkgversion don't tell you that it's PORTREVISION or actually newer  
version. What about when we run 'port* -a'? Took about two weeks to get  
PORTREVISION bump isn't right at all.

Cheers,
Mezz


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