Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:31:41 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/rtc Makefile ports/emulators/rtc/files rtc.c Message-ID: <20040310223141.GA4848@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040310140322.U875@bo.vpnaa.bet> References: <200403100902.i2A922vx092031@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040310093001.GA85013@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040310033538.S9942@odysseus.silby.com> <20040310140322.U875@bo.vpnaa.bet>
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--jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:05:27PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Mike Silbersack wrote: >=20 > > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > *Actually* make rtc work on post-502104 -CURRENT. > > > > > > Is a PORTREVISION bump needed? > > > > > > Kris > > > > It couldn't hurt, thanks for the reminder. >=20 > I know I harp on this a lot, but I'm curious about this one. Why is a > portrevision bump useful here? I see two possibilities: >=20 > 1. A user has a working version of the port. > 2. A user did not have a working version of the port, therefore it > wasn't installed. >=20 > In the first case the bump is harmful, since it causes the user to > upgrade something for no benefit. In the second case, the bump is > meaningless. >=20 > Is there a part of this picture that I'm not seeing? As I understood it, prior to this commit there was a window where the port would compile but not run. This would have required special action for the user to recover from (i.e. manual recompile). Kris --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAT5dNWry0BWjoQKURAjYAAJ9VINtdg9pjnEdSmp8pzGAlez6XNACgpp1e kG1j6RwoN+O9xI+WX3t0WLo= =os6/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--
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