No, it doesn't. The PORTREVISION in the individual ports were bumped, so they will get rebuilt with gcc7 if you set the DEFAULT_VERSION, but it will still show as dated and be rebuilt by any postmaster or poudriere general update.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 10:40 AM Steve Kargl <[email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:29:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > This morning the PORTREVISION on at least hundreds of ports was bumped > > because gcc8 was declared as the "canonical" version. As a result, I will > > have about 300 ports to rebuild which will take many hours. > > Why? > > > > If a port is built and running properly with gcc7, I see no reason to > force > > the rebuild of all of the ports that are built with gcc7. This will lead > to > > a delay of probably several days in getting updated packages built for > > LATEST repos and will consume hours of CPU time for everyone using > > poudriere or building from ports. This even impacts (slightly) climate > > change with the extra energy used in rebuilding all of those ports across > > the globe. > > > > Perhaps there was a real reason this was required. I have certainly never > > seen it before for any new compiler version to either gcc or llvm. > > Does adding > > DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=GCC=7 > > to /etc/make.conf prevent the need to update 300 ports. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
