svn commit: r438307 - in head: . security/libressl

Jan Beich jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 12 14:27:43 UTC 2017


Bernard Spil <brnrd at FreeBSD.org> writes:

>>>     URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/438307
>>>
>>>     Log:
>>>       security/libressl: Update to 2.5.3
[...]
>>> I thought the normal practice was for the commit to also bump the
>>> PORTREVISION for all ports that depend on the one that has changed, to
>>> ensure users of portmaster and portupgrade automatically rebuild all
>>> dependent ports?
>>
>> It is not always feasible to do so, libressl is not the default, and
>> there are *many* ports that depends on it through USES=ssl.
>
> There are currently no ports that have a runtime dependency on LibreSSL.
> Both security/acme-client as well as net/openntpd use statically
> linked libtls.

If you don't bump PORTREVISION of static library consumers how else
package-only users would pick up fixes that are part of the update?

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213691#c4


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