Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:08:53 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r364287 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg-devel Message-ID: <53E97735.10800@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <53E9589A.1010408@egr.msu.edu> References: <53e39939.55bc.4ca5432c@svn.freebsd.org> <20140807172841.58633e63@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <53E3A468.5050603@FreeBSD.org> <53E3AC0C.5020904@gmx.de> <53E3AD09.2050000@FreeBSD.org> <53E3B3B5.9000104@gmx.de> <53E3B6D8.9080101@FreeBSD.org> <53E590AC.4020105@FreeBSD.org> <53E7A512.8050008@FreeBSD.org> <b1c74ebef13a04a7198ed4a34134d63a@shatow.net> <53E7D193.3090305@FreeBSD.org> <88dcf721a5ea4bccfb3cf424da694c72@shatow.net> <53E9589A.1010408@egr.msu.edu>
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On 08/11/2014 19:58, Adam McDougall wrote: > On 08/11/2014 11:33, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> On 2014-08-10 15:09, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote: >>> Nonetheless, doesn't our ports policy defines to bump PORTREVISION in >>> all cases that modifies a resulting package? Shlib provides/requires >>> changing is definitely such a change. So you blame now pkg that it >>> follows the current policy, don't you? >> >> I explained this in private to someone else as well... >> >> Yes it is the policy, but it is a different thing with packages. If a >> bump is missed for ports users it is not a big problem as they can >> remedy it with portmaster by rebuilding ports depending on the changed >> shlib. Package users have no way to fix their packages, so the remote >> must have rebuilt them to link to the new library so the user can have a >> working system without needing to checkout ports every time a committer >> is lazy about chases. Without a bump, or pkg handling it, it would >> result in the user being forced to reinstall packages one by one or with > > I don't intend to detract from a proper solution, but just to make a > point, I can't even easily force individual packages to reinstall right > now. pkg upgrade -f p5-Geo-IP-1.43 ignores me, so I have to pkg remove > -f p5-Geo-IP-1.43 then install it back and it fetches the fixed package. > > I filed a bug report to get a proper version bump almost 2 weeks ago and > no response: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192240 > The port does not have an individual maintainer, just perl@FreeBSD.org. > Could someone jog it along please? I just noticed r364627 took care of it in a sweep this afternoon, disregard the previous paragraph. Thanks.
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