On 2018-4-27 02:55 , Perry E. Metzger wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 02:46:43 +1000 Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> > wrote: >>> So what might work would be trying out installing the archives in >>> a sandbox and using the same mechanism that's used locally before >>> triggering a rebuild? >> >> Sounds like a plan? >> <https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038496.html> >> >> ;-P > > Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not sure I understand why the rev bump > would still be necessary if we could tell the build bots to just > rebuild the package at that point?
For all the usual reasons why stealth updates are bad. Also users aren't guaranteed to have rev-upgrade turned on, which would be needed to detect that anything has changed in this case. - Josh
