On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:

> I really liked the old mtime approach.  It made development easier.  If I 
> have a bug in destroot, I want to just retry destroot without having to 
> rebuild.  I used to accomplish this by touching (or editing) the state file 
> after editing the Portfile, but with this change to checksums, I can no 
> longer trick base this way.
> 
> I really don't want to use ports_ignore_different because I don't want to set 
> it globally, and 75% of the time, I'm sure I'll mistype it.  I'll either 
> think it's port_ instead of ports_ or misspell something else, and then my 
> state will be gone.
> 
> Is there an equivalently easy way to get base to think that the Portfile 
> isn't newer?  What is everyone else's new workflow?

Doen't "port -o" do what you want?

$ man port | col -b | grep -- " -o"
     -o       honor state files even if the Portfile has been modified since
              (called -o because it used to mean "older")



Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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