On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:56:55PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > indeed. I think this is what was breaking update-patches before > too, I fixed it in the tarball I sent but forgot to comment on it. > > there is actually a related problem which happens sometimes with > ports with subpackages: if a patch is applied which affects only > one subpackage, so only that subpackage's version gets bumped, > you have to make sure WRKDIR is clean. I've seen this from time > to time, don't know if there's anything currently doing it. > > In that instance, should PKGNAME get bumped every time any > subpackage is bumped?
Theorically, yes. In practice, we don't really bother... I could be coerced into creating wrkdir names that depend on all subpackages, but that would result in horribly long directory names, and even issues on some fs...
