Ebuild numbering

Hi all,

I think I noticed sometimes people are making changes to
ebuilds
(other than keywords) and not updating the revision number. 
This
makes it hard to get (and test) the changes.  

Or is there another way to tell portage to emerge any
ebuilds that
have changed, regardless of whether the version has been
incremented?

Thanks,


Chris
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On 30-09-2006 06:42:22 -0400, Chris L. Mason wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think I noticed sometimes people are making changes
to ebuilds
> (other than keywords) and not updating the revision
number.  This
> makes it hard to get (and test) the changes.  

In the prefix, I don't want to have a separate numbering
scheme.  In
theory, prefix should "work", so that should not
be necessary either.

Normal Gentoo practise is to do a version bump, if the
outcome of the
change make a major change which is desirable to have (i.e.
more
files/functionality), or when it is absolutely necessary
(security
bumps, stability, completely different way of doing X which
might break
for Y).  A reason not to bump version for example is when
the ebuild
didn't compile/install, because then fixing that actually
allows people
to install the ebuild, so nobody can "miss" this
fix.

> Or is there another way to tell portage to emerge any
ebuilds that
> have changed, regardless of whether the version has
been incremented?

No, because that's the sole purpose of the version numbers. 
I feel
things are stabling lately, so it should only happen
occasionally that
an ebuild gets fixed which requires a rebuild, without
version bump.

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Fabian Groffen
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