Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:34:33 -0800 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/shells/bash Makefile pkg-plist Message-ID: <20090330183433.GA72476@flint.openpave.org> In-Reply-To: <20090330160200.GA74342@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200903120954.n2C9s2ev063133@repoman.freebsd.org> <20090313023956.GA49511@dragon.NUXI.org> <49BA52D2.8090209@FreeBSD.org> <20090323231412.GA94221@hub.freebsd.org> <20090324012325.GB1292@atarininja.org> <20090324043028.GA34952@dragon.NUXI.org> <p06240800c5f05d3db740@[128.113.24.47]> <20090330160200.GA74342@dragon.NUXI.org>
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Hi,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:02:00AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:18:49PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > Ew, I don't like that at all. Why should I rebuild (say) bash just
> > because someone fixes a typo in the description? The port is already
> > installed, and I have no intention of reading the description until
> > *maybe* the next time the package really does change.
>
> I agree for you, as an end user. The thing is that both you and the
> package cluster uses the same indicator to decide if you should rebuild
> the package. So I guess a maintainer could also say, "Hey I fixed that
> typo, but why is every 'pkg_add -r' user still reporting it to me?".
I'm not up to date on what the package building machines are doing, but
a simple md5 of the port's directory (via shar, tar or whatever) would
solve that problem. Storing a special directory (per release) with
'PKGNAME' -> 'md5' symlinks would provide a simple cache. For
completeness one could add a PKGNAME version of all-depends-list (based
on the INDEX?) and a build id (uname -a?) to the list of things going
into the md5.
Regards,
-Jeremy
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