On 2018-4-26 01:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2018, at 09:02, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:31:04 -0700 Ken Cunningham wrote: >>> Portfile authors need to manually "revbump" the library's dependent >>> ports when supporting libraries change significantly. >>> >>> It's not automatically figured out by MacPorts. >> >> Do we have a Trac issue for having it automatically determined, btw? > > I doubt it, since I doubt there's anything we can do about it. How would you > automate that?
It should be possible, but it would be some work. You'd have to install and run rev-upgrade on every dependent port each time any port is updated, and if it finds broken files and the rebuild succeeds in fixing them (i.e. a rev bump would fix the problem), you could commit a rev bump. One complication is that we don't currently have a reliable way of programmatically rev bumping ports (it gets tricky when there are subports for one thing). Just notifying maintainers would still be a win though. - Josh
