On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 01:46:27 +1000 Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > 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.
I don't know that this is needed. As I noted, there are other package systems that just note that they have to rebuild dependents if a package they depend on has a major version bump. Or maybe I don't understand the problem well enough? -- Perry E. Metzger pmetz...@macports.org
