On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:01 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Sean Farley wrote: >>>> Anyone who had the previous file, including our automated systems, will >>>> now encounter a checksum mismatch. To fix this please follow the recipe >>>> for stealth updates: >>>> >>>> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#stealth-updates >>> >>> Why isn't this automatically done for revision bumps? This seems like >>> another task that is needlessly manual. >> >> A revision increase does not imply that a stealth update has occurred. A >> stealth update is a rare occurrence and port authors must manually indicate >> in a port when this has happened because how would you suggest we >> automatically infer that this has happened? > > it wouldn't be horrible if setting a revision just changed dist_subdir > automatically (even when it's not necessary), which I think is what Sean was > suggesting.
I think that would be horrible. It would unnecessarily re-mirror distfiles on our server and all mirrors, greatly increasing mirror disk space requirements for no reason. It would also impose re-downloads for all users, wasting everyone's bandwidth and time. Our current process works; let's not change it. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
