On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM Sebastian Oswald <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Gleb,
>
> > I don't get it, why not use ?= when setting PORTREVISION in the master port?
> > This is a common technique to allow slaves to override master port's
> > variables.
> >
>
> Thanks for that suggestion. I hope I haven't misunderstood you, but the
> problem is not that I want to ovverride PORTREVISION in the master port
> - the problem is that if PORTREVISION is set in a slave port, it
> propagates to the version of the master port (angie) for the build
> process of that slave port.
> E.g. setting PORTREVISION=1 for a www/angie-module-* port results in a
> dependency to 'angie-<version>_1' which of course does not exist.
> I'd have to set the PORTREVISION in the master port (too), which
> triggers an unnecessary rebuild of *all* modules and also bumps their
> portrevision even if there were zero changes.
Ah, that's because of pretty uncommon dependency line
RUN_DEPENDS+= angie==${PKGVERSION}:www/angie
Why does it have to be "==" ? It seems that slave ports draw the
version from the master port anyways, so they won't go out of sync.
