On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:45:57 -0400
Sahil Tandon <sahil@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Should one wait a day or so before committing the bumps to avoid
>> certain "race" conditions with tinderbox, where it might build the port
>> requiring the dependent before rebuilding the dependent?
No, there is no such race, on regular tindy, QAT (soon to be back) or
pointyhat. You should commit this kind of updates _exactly_after_ you
did the update of the dependency. Waiting hours / days / whatever gets
you pointyhats and agry mails from users unable to run their ports
after your update of the dependency.
Please talk about this with your mentors (cc'ed).
> I believe shlib-related PORTREVISION bumps should be committed right
> away.
Yes. Not the same commit, but exactly after, one commit for all
afftected ports.
Finding affected ports:
- ports that list the lib in question in LIB_DEPENDS
- if the dependency has one of the USE_XXX, all the ports that have
that USE_XXX defined (but take a look at what that USE_XXX actually
does, there might be exceotions)
To be safe:
grep -R libsomthing /usr/ports
This is actually documented in PH. Please take some time to read it
all, even the sections that are not in your usual area of interest.
HTH,
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Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>