first experiences with rev-upgrade

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Apr 8 21:29:06 PDT 2012


On 2012-4-8 18:28 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> We don't automatically upgrade a user's outdated ports; we make the user run "port outdated" and upgrade ports themselves on their own time, possibly by using "sudo port upgrade outdated". Why does rev-upgrade run automatically instead of making the user run it manually when they're ready?

So you'd like automatic rev-upgrade runs to just report broken files,
and instruct the user to manually run 'port rev-upgrade' to rebuild the
affected ports? I agree that would probably be less surprising
behaviour, at least as a default.

- Josh


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