On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That's probably safe, but I don't think there is a compelling reason to try 
>> and only revbump the minimal set of ports (better to have some needless 
>> rebuilds/downloads of binary archives than to have mysteriously broken 
>> ports).
> 
> You can't programmatically revbump safely,

with existing tool(s).

> because in ports with subports you have to manually determine which 
> subport(s) to revbump and how to do so.

The general problem is something we should address.

(a 'compatibility version' we store for ports and make part of the dependency 
engine? a better 'revbump a bunch of ports tool'? something else?)

We should have a way to reliably force rebuilds

> e.g. the php port is definitely a special case.

(and is otherwise problematic since it has us distributing versions of php that 
no longer have upstream support)

> So if you're manually examining all ports that depend on openssl, you can run 
> an "svn log" on them to see if any commits after r146162 updated the version 
> or revision.

ick.
 
-- 
Daniel J. Luke



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