On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:59 PM Aaron Madlon-Kay <aa...@madlon-kay.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:42 AM Eric Gallager via macports-dev > <macports-dev@lists.macports.org> wrote: > > > > I agree that this behavior would be helpful, however, doing so would > > require keeping the results of previous builds installed, whereas I > > think the current behavior is to do all builds from a fresh > > environment... > > While the intended function of rev-upgrade would require previous > builds, there *are* failure cases that rev-upgrade can catch that > would be helpful. Case in point: > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63456 > > -Aaron
Another idea that would help catch more errors with rev-upgrade without requiring previous builds to be kept: have the buildbots run port_cutleaves (or just `port uninstall unrequested`) between doing `port install` and `port rev-upgrade`
