On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:56 PM, <mk-macpo...@techno.ms> wrote: > The only idea I had was that I started the whole MacPorts installation > from scratch and it ran perhaps for 4 hrs (with a 1h of short > interruptions) and somewhere in between I saw rev-upgrade rebuilding tiff… > So, I thought that some other dependency of tiff must have changed in the > meantime. >
One of the reasons rev-upgrade exists is that various "bugs" (rarely this can be actual bugs in macrpots; more often it's stuff like underspecified dependencies in various ports) in the past could lead to things being missed; you would only notice if you happened to use the thing that was broken (which, if it was a build dep that is no longer needed, might well be never; also in that case older versions of macports might not have noticed). rev-upgrade catches these silent errors and corrects them. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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