On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:48:33PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: > The recent change to jpeg required a lot of changes to a lot of ports all > just to bump a version number.
That is true, there is a script for in /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/ called bump_version.pl which can do most of the magic. > It is easy to miss things this way and requires a lot of work and > downloading. Oh, you are talking about the user side of things. Please have a look at portmaster or portupgrade, they can do this magic for you. > I propose that some kind of MAJORVERSION be stored in /var/db/ports. Then > when a library's MAJORVERSION is changed it will prompt a rebuild on any > port that relies on it will also get rebuilt. I like the idea, but it handles the problem from the wrong side: The person who bumps the port revisions would need to have all ports installed to make this judgement. > Computer are *designed* handle these types of things See first two comments. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/ ed...@mavetju.org Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
